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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!sierra.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver2.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!stokes.math.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: zabluda@stokes.math.psu.edu (Oleg Zabluda) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 1 Apr 1996 05:29:44 GMT Organization: The Pennsylvania State University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4jnpk8$fl@dodgson.math.psu.edu> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j6msk$ho@darkstar.my.lan> <DovMp4.765@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: stokes.math.psu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13883 comp.os.linux.development.system:20320 comp.os.linux.x:28062 comp.os.linux.hardware:34901 comp.os.linux.setup:48087 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:376 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2885 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2660 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16319 Alexander Sanda (alex@darkstar.ping.at) wrote: : Let's assume, that 10% of all linux users think about getting a matrox : card. Now assume, that _all_ those people boycott matrox (which won't : happen), because there is no free driver support. Even this scenario : won't be a great loss for matrox. : : This sounds disappointing, but it's reality :-( : : -- : A. Sanda : Vienna, Austria : email: alex@darkstar.ping.at powered by Linux : ------------------------------------------------------------------ You forget that a lot of Linux users are local computer gurus. And they influence hardware purchases of other people. So I think that you should multiply the number of unhappy boycotting users by at least 10. This still will not account for a lot of people. But for some reason even this small number of people seems to influence the behavior of companies. Diamond being the example. Oleg.