[mythtv-users] No ATI support for Myth says AMD
Chad
masterclc at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 22:57:17 UTC 2007
> Well since their sales are in the Billions of dollars that is probably
> the reason since thousands of $$ is insignificant on that scale.
>
> John
> _______________________________________________
:)
What a nice thought. Thousands don't matter because we have
billions... I guess once the thousands turns to millions then they'll
change their thought process? Or do we have to wait until it passed
the hundred-million-dollar threshold? I don't really see why they
"can't" support us.
Let's assume there are... 100,000 Linux users that want the features
they don't yet 'support'. Since the cards are, what, ~$50 a piece,
that's ~$5 million bucks, roughly. I am not that good at guessing
what it costs to 'support' us, but my guess is that it's got to be
less than $5 million to build in the support we want into their
proprietary driver (think Nvidia).
So, although it's still not billions, it sure seems 'cost effective'
to actually do it.
-Chad
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