[Panel-devel] ATi- Plasma- support

[danalien]

danalien 101 - don't care if *they know what I've said =)

btw, if they're "smrt" [0] business men, it's one of the things
they allready know about ... and we're just letting em' know
we to know what they know, you know? - it's what I'd like to
refer to as "the business tango" :-)

So, if they want to tango, then tango shall we.


cheers.

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0 - excuse the Homer Simpson pun :)

On Thursday 18 August 2005 03.49, Wade Olson wrote:
> 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:
> >  
> >
> >>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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