Why Linux is Becoming Impossible for Audio Developers to Ignore

[Largos]

This is actually a really good approach, much more so than trying to argue market adoption. Celebrate the developers that support the platform and support them by actually buying their software. You want *them* to be the ones saying linux is important to them.

For developers to target the platform it needs to make financial sense for them to do so. Once it does more will.

This will require a mental shift for the FOSS purists.

It requires nothing of the sort. As a "FOSS purist" I haven't stopped financially supporting developers, I just only support FOSS developers. If a developer wants money from me, they have to provide a service acceptable to me. The question is why is poor service acceptable to the majority of those who use software. This is where the mental shift needs to take place.

Everyone would have better products if you stopped believing this company bullshit that for good software to exist you have to submit to hideous licenses and install tertiary bullshit to "lock" your products. These things only happen because people let it.

[Tiles]

That's a valid consumer choice.

But developers also get to choose which markets they serve.

If a market rejects their products, licensing model and business practices, they may simply decide not to enter that market at all.