it would take until a beta driver appears? 1 year? 2 years? And what will happen
in the meantime?
plainly.some other company will take over the market, and sell products
with open drivers available.
in meantime arm devices can still be used for i.e. dataloggers, especially
without linux support their market price drops significantly.
i really see no big deal here. it happened before with nvidia -
don't you recall how much their hardware lost in it's value ?
upgraded cards were given-away as buggy and unsupported in linux,
and had very short-life in 2nd hand market.
compare it to i.e. SGI machines which are still circulating and are
valued, even though their opensource support is actually not so brilliant,
and hardware performance even worse...
nowadays companies like ARM are again fishing in the same market - people
who once invested big bucks in nvidia, are now thinking twice.
and it's not really related with opensource - notice how many unsatisfied
customers turned away from _proprietary_ solutions , tired with messy
service packs, remote exploits, long-uncorrected bugs, and dropping of
support for whole OS solutions, leaving users with expensive support
options and unstable systems behind.
i think if new ARM/freescale products will not have decent opensource
support now, they will not only loose opensource market, but will not get
the profit from proprietary market basing on previous 'success' of
similiar solutions due fact users simply learnt their lesson.
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