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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!interaccess!thymaster!joeg From: joeg@thymaster.interaccess.com (Joe Grosch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 3 Apr 1996 08:43:08 GMT Organization: InterAcces, Chicagolands best Internet Provider Lines: 48 Message-ID: <4jtdms$6cr@nntp.interaccess.com> References: <4j6msk$ho@darkstar.my.lan> <DovMp4.765@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> <stephenkDp5xr1.69v@netcom.com> Reply-To: joeg@truenorth.org NNTP-Posting-Host: thymaster.interaccess.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14036 comp.os.linux.development.system:20538 comp.os.linux.x:28358 comp.os.linux.hardware:35231 comp.os.linux.setup:48689 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:421 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2953 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2720 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16523 Stephen Knilans (stephenk@netcom.com) wrote: >In article <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> alex@darkstar.ping.at (Alexander Sanda) writes: >>In article <DovMp4.765@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> >>Richard Tobin (richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) wrote: >> [ DELETED ] >> >>Let's assume, that 10% of all linux users think about getting a matrox >>card. Now assume, that _all_ those people boycott matrox (which won't >>happen), because there is no free driver support. Even this scenario >>won't be a great loss for matrox. >> >>This sounds disappointing, but it's reality :-( >> [ DELETED ] I'm gonna have to disagree with you. The free Unix comunity while small is still a good size. Big enough that if 10% boycotted Matrox product they would notice. Lets do the numbers. A Matrox MGA Millenium PCI with 2 meg of ram (the card in question) goes for about $315.00. I just randomly flipped though the new copy of Computer shopper so that is not the best price but it will due. Now I have no idea what the markup is for video cards but for the sake of argument lets say its 100% so the wholsale cost is $157.50. Now, lets assume that there are 500,000 users in the free UNIX comunity. so 10% of that is 50,000. 50,000 times $157.50 is $7,875,000.00. I don't know what Matrox gross sales were last year but considering the slim profit margins that most manufactures are working with $7.8 million could be the difference between a proft and a loss for Matrox. So, if 10% of the free UNIX comunity were to boycott Matrox and told them why I thing Matrox would reconsider their position. Josef -- Josef Grosch - joeg@truenorth.org | "Laugh while you can, monkey boy." http://www.interaccess.com/users/joeg | - John Warfin - ========================================================================== Keeper of FreeBSD ported list - FreeBSD 2.1.0R http://www.interaccess.com/users/joeg/ported.html ==========================================================================