On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:37:49PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:15:52PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > We aren't even a blip on the radar of these companies wrt sales compared > > to the unit volume they shift on that other OS. > > If the Linux community as a whole moves to a different vendor du jour, > > it barely affects their bottom line. > > We're a blip, but if even all of the 100k votes on the > dellideastorm.com site in the last few weeks for Linux systems bought > two a year, that'd be <1% of the Windows volume. Doesn't mean we > shouldn't try, but it is an uphill battle. The difference is that Dell *are* listening. I see no signs that any of the big proprietary gfx driver vendors are doing so. ATI especially. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
