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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!castle.nando.net!bessel.nando.net!lleclerc From: lleclerc <lleclerc@nando.net> 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: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 18:20:17 -0500 Organization: Nando.net Public Access Lines: 33 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960402181916.20854B-100000@bessel.nando.net> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j6msk$ho@darkstar.my.lan> <DovMp4.765@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> <4jnpk8$fl@dodgson.math.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bessel.nando.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4jnpk8$fl@dodgson.math.psu.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14150 comp.os.linux.development.system:20683 comp.os.linux.x:28568 comp.os.linux.hardware:35440 comp.os.linux.setup:49020 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:455 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2996 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2758 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16647 Thats right, I have already steered two purchases away from matrox to mach64s for exactly this reason... L.L. On 1 Apr 1996, Oleg Zabluda wrote: > 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. > >