On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:55:20PM +0100, Raphael Jacquot wrote: > Timothy Miller wrote: > >There's an alternative, but it's more expensive, and that also is a > >problem. > > well, even if the competition's part is $5 extra, it won't make the > price tag of the board much more expensive than it should be. > trying to count pennies is a bad idea if you ask me, when the initial > price tag is more than $200...
Making the card cheap will help sales and/or increase profit for TSI (and thus, lower the minimum number of sales). To me, lowering the price seems to increase the chance of the projects success. Yes, it's only $5, but keep up that attitude, and it starts adding up. > >To an extent, we have numbers on our side, because we have lots of > >people who can drive home the point, but I hate it when the free > >software community bullies companies, like what happened with TI not too > >long ago. Notice how TI still didn't concede to the request, and now TI > >is even less likely to want to support free software in the future. > > well, imho, we should just forget about connexant and use the > competition's stuff. I think it's worth a shot. If they _do_ cooperate, we've got the right part at the right price. Otherwise, TSI should at least let Conexant know they are losing customers over their draconian licensing policies. Marcel Moreaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
