Timothy Miller wrote:
On 10/14/06, Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 13 October 2006 16:46, Dieter wrote:
>
> > The fact is, any card that they might release full specs for would
> > be just as old-tech as OGA, if not worse. They're not going to
> > give up their money-makers at the high end, so they'll start
> > selling $24 Radeon 7000 cards again.
>
> Sigh. Even the founding father of an open hardware group thinks of
> releasing specs as giving up a money-maker.
No, he thinks that nVidia and ATI make most of their money with the most
expensive and recent of their cards, rather than with the older
versions. It's the cards that are being described as money-makers, not
the specs.
Let me clarify: ATI and nVidia see their newer high-end cards as
money-makers. Therefore, they will not give away the specs.
Lourens' statement is correct, but orthogonal to what I was saying.
what happens next is that they didn't need to write docs, because the
driver was written internally. then when card n is superseeded by card
n+1, it makes no economical sense to spend money on writing docs for it,
because that's not what they are going to sell next.
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