On 8/14/06, Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Compare the benefits of writing a driver (being able to sell millions of items of your hardware for use with Windows, making enough money to keep the business afloat) to the benefits of converting the internal documentation to a book (by the way, wouldn't a book be outdated by the time it came off the press?). It's not really going to be a best seller, and the extra hardware sales due to better driver support on open OSes are negligible compared to the Windows sales. You open yourself up to the risk of being badmouthed in the press by the competition if you publicise the faults in your silicon, and they might take some of your tricks and use them in their own products. Not to mention the risk of patent lawsuits. Even if you do make a small monetary profit on the documentation itself it still seems like a losing proposition to me.
Well that should only mean that ATI will never be concerned about competition from the open graphics card at all. It does not care about a niche market. They dont seem to believe there is a market at all. Sounds good to me. Shall we conclude that the major graphics card manufacturers dont think the open source market is a viable one? We can all forget about ATI and NVidia.The future for open source graphics is OGP. -- things i hate about my linux pc: 1. it takes more than a second to boot up 2. keeps asking about filenames and directories 3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday 4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made 5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
