On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 19:39 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 14:49 -0800, Maluvia wrote:
> > I just cannot think of any other reason why hardware manufacturers
> > would want to lock their product into a single OS.
>
> (with apologies to the writer of "Fight Club")
>
> Let A be the estimated profit per Linux sale, B the size of the Linux
> market and C the potential cost if the competition uses the published
> specs to copy their device. If A times B is less than C, there will not
> be a Linux driver.
>
> The only thing these vendors understand is money - if they don't support
> Linux, don't buy their gear. One big client's insistence (the Weather
> channel) was enough to get ATI to release open drivers for one of their
> lines of 3D cards. We just need to get Linux heads into positions of
> power like that...
>
Lee, do you have a link for a story on that Weather Channel thing?
I'd sure like to know more about that.
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