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Lee Revell wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 12:06 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
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>>>Fine with me.  If I shelled out for RME hardware I better be able to
>>>call RME for support, same as on any other OS.  You get what you pay
>>>for, right?
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>>Sure, but when you buy it and the box says 'Requires Mac OS X or
>>Windows XP' then as a buyer I have to respect that. I cannot expect
>>them to support Linux when it wasn't advertised that it works on
>>Linux. RME has given me GREAT support under Windows and I expect that
>>this will not change. They are a great company. I own two cards and
>>wouldn't hesitate to buy another if I was going to set up another
>>Windows box.
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>Yeah, I was referring to an Nvidia like scenario, where they don't
>release open drivers, but release closed Linux drivers of comparable
>quality and the same support as the Windows driver.
>
>Of course I would be pretty annoyed if they just drop Linux completely,
>for the same reasons as others in this thread - they have a relationship
>with the community at this point.  But I don't think they would be that
>stupid.  After all pissing off hundreds of potential customers is just
>as bad an idea as giving valuable IP to the competition.
>
>Lee
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Nvidia isn't going to drop Linux support as long as big movie studios 
like Pixar and ILM are using their products with Linux.

                Rick B

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