[Fwd: Re: Fedora free software?]

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:37:49PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
 > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:15:52PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > We aren't even a blip on the radar of these companies wrt sales compared
 > > to the unit volume they shift on that other OS.
 > > If the Linux community as a whole moves to a different vendor du jour,
 > > it barely affects their bottom line.
 > 
 > We're a blip, but if even all of the 100k votes on the
 > dellideastorm.com site in the last few weeks for Linux systems bought
 > two a year, that'd be <1% of the Windows volume.  Doesn't mean we
 > shouldn't try, but it is an uphill battle.

The difference is that Dell *are* listening.
I see no signs that any of the big proprietary gfx driver vendors
are doing so.  ATI especially.

	Dave

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