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Just two observations, only generally related:
If you have an OSX system without the installation discs, and you want

to install a free C/C++ compiler, the *only* way I have found is with

a download of several hundred MB from the official OSX website with

*lots* of extra stuff, examples, docs, developer's tools, for many

different languages. Surely won't matter for the majority of people

who would even consider Mac, but *why*? Why on earth would anyone make

that decision?? Especially considering that it's actually GPL software

created by someone else!
On whether Windows or Mac is more important in pro audio, I haven't

gotten so close to the "professional" audio world, but I went to a

pretty modern university, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and

right as I was graduating they announced the decision to require ALL

students to purchase MacBooks with their own money. Not just music

students, but theater, dance, sculpture, etc., everyone! I don't know

if such a decision reflects a wide market trend in the art world (in

my mind that's impossible, the trend is towards Linux), but it

indicates some kind of power over Windows.
-Chuckk
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

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> Hallo,

>

> here's an excellent read about Kim Casone (of .microsound and this list, too)

> switching from Mac to Linux:

>

> http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/08/04/linux-music-workflow-switching-...

> (URL in one line)

>

> Great work, Kim!

>

> Ciao

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