Hifn vs ATI

Hifn vs ATI

Posted Jul 23, 2006 6:48 UTC (Sun) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Hifn vs ATI by cventers
Parent article: OLS: Open source graphics drivers

By every single bit of advice from actual driver developers I have ever read, this is madness -- not just useless, but destructive. Venom on the mailing list had no effect at all, because nobody read it. What did have an effect was the real threat to their sales. Nothing anybody in Free Software can do can have any impact on their sales, because (1) too few are involved, and anyway (2) most of their sales aren't to end users, but to manufacturers who aren't even aware there's an issue, and would be uninterested if they did know.

What can possibly influence ATI and Nvidia? Volume sales. That's all. If you have a say in large-volume orders, and can convince ATI and Nvidia of it, you have their ear. Anything else is just grandstanding.

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