> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chavdar Ivanov" <ci4ic4@gmail.com>
> To: tls@rek.tjls.com
> Subject: Re: Petition for NetBSD Nvidia driver (step by step)
> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 17:58:32 +0000
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> On 12/2/06, Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:49:17AM +0800, Karim Forsthofer wrote:
> > >
> > > The only thing that we have to do now is to wait until the petition
> > > has enough signer. Then I will send this petition to nvidia.
> >
> > Where it will have no effect whatsoever.  You're simply not going to
> > be able to get them to devote fifty thousand bucks of development
> > and support time (probably an underestimate) just because a few
> > hundred people say they want a pony.
> >
> > NVidia ship *hundreds of thousands* of chips every quarter.  A few
> > hundred (or even a few thousand) more indirect sales simply do not offer
> > them enough revenue at the margin to justify the development cost.
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> But maybe - just *may be* - the *marketing* benefit of having yet
> another not that difficult to support Unix driver would...


 That`s exactly how I see it. We have to try it.=20=20


> > Quentin's proposal is a much more realistc path forward.
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> Nothing wrong with trying - either way...
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TRUE!!!

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