They say the Linux audio tools are coming on strong. I'm curious, ever try Ardour? There's a Mac version.

The linux audio tools are still a long, long way from being professionally viable. They're great for doing tweaky, loop-based dance production (which makes sense, given the proclivities of the people who contribute to open-source), but it's not capable of doing the things that would put it in production-class software.

Open source has repeatedly failed to meet the promises of liberating the world. It is simply another option of the same thing. A truly disruptive technology has been sitting there, mostly ignored, since the 1980s when others were trying to promote it. But that concept is not where this discussion is going - remains irrelevant in this thread.

If open source was the future, well, where is Linux addressing what is probably the major bottleneck in software today?

The switch from Windows to Linux only addresses what the bean counter understands. It ignores disruptive innovation that has been an ongoing problem (challenge) since the 1980s.

Don't play a game with the thread by withholding your secret agendas.

It's simply poor form, poor communications and sends the wrong signals to your readers.