[Panel-devel] ATi- Plasma- support

[danalien]

On Thursday 18 August 2005 04.01, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:31, danalien wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 August 2005 02.11, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:40, danalien wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> would i like to see open source drivers? you bet! bu ti would expect that ATi 
> and nVidia's response to your approach would simply be "oh. ok. well, that's 
> unfortunate. bye!" and then our users would still be stuck with closed source 
> drivers AND not have the best experience possible with plasma. lose, lose.

Nope you've got it all backwards! :-)

Yes, what you said, can be true, they could do just that. But then it'll be up to
us to go and show them what amazing things we can do with XGI's and VIA's products!

So if it's anybody that will loose, in the end, it will be them.  Be confident of that! - even 
if they'd try to pull that "card" you've just said. 

See it this way, if we can make Plasma 'sing' on XGI & VIA ... we'll "have them by the ballz",
so to speak =D ... as they'll be threaded of the competition, it the sense that here's XGI/VIA
that offer products with less blazzing-speed, but still manages to 'sing' someting as amazing as
Plasma ... and comes at an affordable prize ... and I can garantee you that somewhere down
the line they hear of themselfs again, when they'll feel that their "profit margins" will/would be
at the stake!     (exact time is hard to predict, but somewhere down the road, they'll definitely
be back - IF we'll make Plasma 'Sing' on XGI/VIA)

If not, then you can have my notebook (an Acer 1300xv) ) - yeah, I'll gladly "put my money where my mouth is" :-)


As I've said to 'Wade Olson' - this is "the business tango".


> i'd like to actually have a relationship with these people so that maybe our 
> users can have better graphics support on the desktop. and that's really the 
> full extent of my agenda. i think that should be the full extent of the 
> plasma agenda as well.

I know what you mean, and my intentions are exatly the same .... but it
seems that developers don't really know "the business tango" all to well,
and they behave like n3wbi3 music artist that will sign over their rights to
the 1st person commin' knocking on the door - from the excitemet.

And that's exactly not how real business men do business!

Their calm, rational, know what they want, and know how to "tango" when it's needed. :)


cheers.
 

PS. I got a degree in Business, so I feel more then confident in what I've said.
[if you'd like proof I can bring it with me to aKademy :)]

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