can you give examples? I work with Pd, sibelius, reaper, ...
I was referring to Microsoft Windows when talking about audio work. I understand someone using macos because of coreaudio and other good software, but I don't get it for Windows.
Since you speak of contributing, you can go back read my e-mail. I've given a donation to Hans for his work on Pd-ext (nothing fancy), and also bought the hard disk where the windows builds on the compile farm are stored. Besides that, I've spent lots of time helping with documentation (go back to read my mail). So, we agree on this.
I was not referring to you personally. Some areas of free software are really well funded (the kernel for instance...), but audio/multimedia/music are not there yet. I think donations and work from the artists themselves with technical knowledge are some options.