Re: [LAU] LightWorks for Linux Demo

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.

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Len Ovens
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