God, it's Great to be on Wintel Sometimes

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

Tony Scharf wrote:
>> Free, as in freedom... not only to download, but to recode.
>>
>> Tony (HB)
> 
> You know, after using linux for a while (and loving it) Ive come to
> the conclusion that it is not, in fact, free.  There is an opportunity
> cost to using it in the areas of support, the choices of applications
> available, and the choices of hardware you can use with it.
> 
> For example, My sound card doesnt work on linux.  For various reasons,
> I really like that particular sound card.  using linux as my daw = not
> using the soundcard of my choice.
> 
> Also, I have found that linux apps fall into one of two catagories:
> excellent and attrocious.  It seems that once a dominant player comes
> around, support for all the other projects disappears.

Yeah - well, you have described the downside of anarchy... ;)

Tony (HB)