[mythtv-users] No ATI support for Myth says AMD

[Steve Hodge]

On 4/11/07, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well since their sales are in the Billions of dollars that is probably
> > the reason since thousands of $$ is insignificant on that scale.


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).
>

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.

Steve
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