> Well, the same way development on any other platform will: through a > combination of clever/talented developers, and committed and coherent > marketing. There seems to be too many committed and coherent marketers on Windows, not enoough for Linux. It's not going to attract a lot of developers until they see a large viable market. > As is the case today. The tools for editing video readily exist on Mac and > Windows. So how will Linux ever get ahead? Through an OS that provides some advantage over the other two for this type of processing. That could attract the users which in turn would attract developers. Only how different can Linux be from OSX in terms of power for this type of processing now that OSX is basically Unix too? IPC 2001