[Panel-devel] ATi- Plasma- support

[Wade Olson]

Business 102: Check to see if the person you're talking about is on the 
mailing list first :).

danalien wrote:

>On Thursday 18 August 2005 02.11, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:40, danalien wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>we'll see.. we're working out the details now =)
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>>btw, i got an email from nVidia shortly after blogging about this ;)
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>good.
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>here's a thing you could throw at them (to stirr some 'fire' in the conversation).
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>if ATI guy goes : No we won't fully F/OSS the drivers...
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>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.
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>/* 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! */
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>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 =)
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>cheers.
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>PS.  s/ATI guy/Nvidia guy/ when needed :-)
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