On 4/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chad</b> <<a href="mailto:masterclc@gmail.com">masterclc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Well since their sales are in the Billions of dollars that is probably<br>> the reason since thousands of $$ is insignificant on that scale.</blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Let's assume there are... 100,000 Linux users that want the features<br>they don't yet 'support'. Since the cards are, what, ~$50 a piece,<br>that's ~$5 million bucks, roughly. I am not that good at guessing
<br>what it costs to 'support' us, but my guess is that it's got to be<br>less than $5 million to build in the support we want into their<br>proprietary driver (think Nvidia).<br></blockquote></div><br>At least in my case it's costing them a lot more than $50. Because they won't support Linux with high quality, feature-rich drivers I won't buy an ATI card for any purpose. My main gaming machine is a Windows box and even though ATI is a viable option there I won't consider them until they sort out their Linux support. Which means they've missed out on hundreds of dollars potential sales over the years.
<br><br>Steve<br><br>