On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Tim Roberts wrote: >>On the other hand.. If more people who didn't want to have to run >>another OS to access features that are not well supported because of >>lack of knowledge on how to support them would comment/complain >>(oh alright -BITCH-) maybe the hardware vendors would realize that there >>is a viable market for their devices to be used on the second class OS's > >The reality of the business end of this is just brutal. The unfortunate fact >is that your "viable market" is completely insignificant. > >ATI doesn't make money from you. ATI doesn't make money from the few tens of >thousands of Linux users out there. At their margins, that probably pays for >part of one engineer's salary. > >No, ATI makes money when IBM orders 2 million Rage chips for their next >generation laptop. If IBM made the deal conditional on ATI providing high- >quality, high-functionality XFree86 drivers, you can bet they would trip over >their shoelaces in providing that. However, they don't. IBM makes the deal >conditional on great WinXP drivers and great DX9 support, because to 3 >standard deviations, that's what its customers want. > >In business terms, the Linux market is not relevant. Sad but true. > >>I would actually be satisfied with Binary only drivers that would >>support the whole card. But, there aren't enough people letting them >>know that there is an interest (OOPS that would be BITCHING!). > >And even if EVERY person let them kinow there was an interest, it still >wouldn't be enough. There just aren't enough of us.
Sigh... Once again you say more or less in about 10 sentences what I am thinking and trying to relay in 300 sentences. Are you for hire or what? ;o) -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
