Sapphire considers Nvidia?

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Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
After ATi signing a big lucrative contract with Microsoft for the Xbox360, and helping to shape the graphics core for the next Windows, it wouldn't make much sense for ATi to be devoting resources to improving their Linux support.

How much money is there to be made by developing for Linux? ATi is a business, and businesses have to go where the money is. Your millions of users of Linux are not hardcore gamers who drop $500 every 6 months for the latest and greatest video cards, nor are they the kind of people who routinely buy new video cards. When you then factor in how few games offer native Linux support, it makes even less sense for a business model.

It doesn't take but some basic drivers to get a low end video card to function fine in Linux, and thats what the majority of Linux users need, so there's little reason for ATi to try to fix something that won't help them as a business very much.

So just because you might happen to game on Linux, don't lump the rest of the Linux world under your rock.

Many linux users dual boot. So their main rig will run Windows and games and also run Linux. Most Linux users that I know are hardcore gamers. Most will not buy an ATI card because of the Linux support, even if they never intend to run Linux with the card.

Personally when I upgrade my video card to the latest and greatest I use the old (high end) card in a Linux box.

BACK ON TOPIC.
Sapphire is looking at how well the 7900 series is selling and they probably want a piece of the action. Not too mention they don't have to compete against NVIDIA cards like they do against ATI cards, because NVIDIA does not make cards.