[Panel-devel] ATi- Plasma- support

[danalien]

On Thursday 18 August 2005 02.11, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:40, danalien wrote:
> > Exactly what does this 'want to wark with the plasma team' entail?
> > ... do they want to provide us with fully F/OSS drivers? ...go the
> > Nvidia-route? ... or?
> 
> we'll see.. we're working out the details now =)
> 
> btw, i got an email from nVidia shortly after blogging about this ;)

good.

here's a thing you could throw at them (to stirr some 'fire' in the conversation).

if ATI guy goes : No we won't fully F/OSS the drivers...

you go : Then, thanks but no thanks - hade a nice chat. But the bottom line is, there
              are other gfx-cardmanufacturors out there that allready do support us with
              such things as F/OSS drivers, and by the looks from your comment  - we're
              going to spend our time supporting them for supporting us with F/OSS drivers.


/* if ATI guy asks who - say name XGI and Via - and that both produce hardware that's more then
    adequate for what are going to do ... F/OSS drivers are more important for us in the long-line
    then Blazzing-speed-we-won't-ever-be-able-to-fully-utilize-with-"crippled"-binary-only-drivers! */


Remember, they've come to you - not you to them ... so don't be to affraid of using that
as an advantage for your benefits ... business 101 =)


cheers.


PS.  s/ATI guy/Nvidia guy/ when needed :-)

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