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From: geert@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Geert Uytterhoeven)
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Subject: Re: Why not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 12 Aug 1996 08:33:36 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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In article <4umjgf$d4o@guysmiley.blarg.net>, vanevery@blarg.net (Brandon J. Van Every) writes:
|> Let's put it another way. The freeware universe, and particularly
|> Linuxers, are always making the mistake of thinking that their market
|> is a gift from God or something. It isn't. It's tiny. It's paltry.
^^^^^^^^^^
|> It's growing, but one should keep in mind a certain sense of scale
|> before declaring that someone like Matrox's strategy is
|> "self-defeating."
Yes, it's tiny compared to the rest of the world, but then you forget something
important...
Most Linux users I know do know what's good hardware, and they're willing to
pay for it (for the _hardware_). They don't think you can buy a
state-of-the-art screeming multi-media machine at the local mall for 1000 USD,
like most W95 users do. They do know Matrox boards are great and fast and worth
their money, and they would buy one if XFree would support it.
So the Linux market may be small, but the penetration of high-end graphics
boards is much higher in those tiny market than in the general
home-garden-kitchen W95 market.
Remark: PCs used for heavy business is something different, of course...
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/m68k on Amiga http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium