---- ofeeley@yahoo.com wrote: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > > I was at a LANparty over the weekend, so I had to quickly look over > the 250 mails that got into my box in the meantime... > > > > I remember there was a discussion about ATI and NVidia and why ATI > wouldn't wanna code Linux drivers. > > So maybe we could set up a mail to ATI so they notice there are ppl > interested in such drivers? > > What do you think? > > > > I think this might be a very productive thing to do. As long as we > made > sure that the emphasis was on polite emails requesting that they do > this. > Also, we should probably try to offer suggestions for main points that > > could be customized by the individual mailers: I get the impression > that > cut-n-paste verbatim copied emails don't carry much wait. In fact, > I've > been told that the best thing is a snail-mail letter. Yeah, I know, > a > pain in the butt, however the reasoning is that companies are much > more > impressed when someone has gone to the trouble of applying their own > > spittle to the envelope. The Linux-Advocacy-HOWTO may have some good > tips > if we decide to do this. > > -Oisin > I agree. A good clean, professional looking snail-mail letter would definitely have more weight then electronic mail (IMHO anyhow). Hubert
