On Wed, March 13, 2013 6:06 pm, James Harkins wrote: > Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@...> writes: > >> There are more people using Linux variants in China than the whole > population of the USA... > > "Variants" being the key word. It is true that Android has a larger market > share than iOS in China, but this has zero bearing on the percentages of > pro > audio/video editing systems in use. > > If you're counting oranges, and you decide the numbers are not impressive > enough so you include broccoli (but call them oranges), it's less than > convincing. > > I live in China, and I promise you, on desktop and laptop systems, Linux > is > more rare here than in the US. The prevailing mentality about free > software > here is that it's better to steal proprietary software than to use free > software honestly: they prefer to crack Windows than use Linux. My > students > (at the #3 or #4 ranking conservatory in China) think I'm a freak for > using > Linux; they find it impressive in some way, and exotic, but nobody wants > to > follow suit. On at least one occasion, someone guessed I was using a > cracked > OSX. Linux is barely on the radar. Same way they started eating white rice I am told. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
