Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:42:32 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors Message-ID: <20081213214016.X44622@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20081213200931.GD51063@kokopelli.hydra> References: <20081211170011.777236f8@gom.home> <20081212015814.GB32982@kokopelli.hydra> <20081212120437.B3687@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081212181258.GE36348@kokopelli.hydra> <ghuau9$juk$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081212203202.H4803@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081212150228.520ad7f8@scorpio> <20081212212931.F5072@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081213094403.GH39031@kokopelli.hydra> <20081213163709.GA17550@comcast.net> <20081213200931.GD51063@kokopelli.hydra>
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> probably that they would create "competitors" somehow, magically, without > providing any information that directly encourages competition for their > hardware. If they wanted to provide per-incident paid software support > or simply charge people extra for drivers, *then* I could see this being > a problem, but I haven't seen a whole lot of that kind of rent-seeking > behavior from graphics adapter vendors. i don't see any problem. There is a product - for example Nvidia powersuckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfull 3D accellerators. Their can this, that, blah, blah and blah, they don't have FreeBSD support. There are other products, they can this that blah blah and have FreeBSD support. You need blah blah and blah under FreeBSD, you don't buy nvidia. end of topic.
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