On 18 Jul 2003 20:16:35 -0500, William Suetholz 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. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
