Robert Hancock wrote:
Nikolaos D. Bougalis wrote:
Manufacturers design product as they see fit and offer it on the
market; I don't see nVidia or ATI thugs twisting your arm behind you
as you walk down the aisle of Fry's Electronics saying "buy this nice
card we made or I'll break your arm."
If you need high-performance 3D they might as well be, as realistically
ATI and NVIDIA are the only providers of high-performance video for the
consumer market. Nobody else makes anything that competes, not even
onboard video chipsets like Intel, SiS, etc.
My point was that nowadays most manufacturers, as a matter of course, do not
provide full details on how the hardware is programmed, and there appears to
be no significant market for high-performance 3D graphics with an open
specification.
I do not like owning a space heater with nifty DVI outputs, and that is a
fact I take into account when I make a purchasing decision for graphics cards
I will be using with Linux.
But I realize that ultimately, companies respond to markets, and not idealism
and know that ACME Hardware will publish the specs for their rocket-shoes when
the piece of the Linux rocket-shoe pie becomes lucrative enough. And because I
do, I try to change the market and educate consumers -- not browbeat companies
or turn the piece into a crumble by limiting what consumers can do.
-n
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