| From: | Matthew Allatt |
| Date: | 15 Aug 2001 at 22:39:44 |
| Subject: | Re: Mediator Drivers (was Re: 40 Years. Lord Haw Haw-Guy Fox-Lundy) |
Hello Bill
On 15-Aug-01, you wrote:
> Well, you also need to remember that Elbox picked the most available cards
> to support, and also the ones where the developer information was freely
> available. Warp3D stand out as the only drivers Elbox have been prepared
> to pay money to include with their cards, and that was a mighty palavre.
>
See below - re: CyberGraphx people. Elbox did make a mess of it though, I'll
agree.
> Is it beyond the realm of possibility that the other card developers
> picked the same cards for the same reasons?
It's true that developer's material is rather thin on the ground for
graphics cards. What I wonder is why haven't Matay or DCE done any drivers
for other things? I'm having a go at a serial driver. I've found
developer's information on the 'Net. I'd expect there to be developer's
information available for USB, Firewire, PCI Modems, there's developer's
information for the soundblaster card, yet Elbox will probably be the first
to produce those as well, their TV card will also be out. I'd like to see
how long it takes for other companies to produce drivers.
>
> If Elbox want to have people believe their accusations they should produce
> more than circumstantial evidence, and do so in a law court. AFAIAC, Elbox
> are hypocrites. They moan about not being paid for work others
> /supposedly/ used, yet complain bitterly about having to pay anything when
> they /borrow/ other people's hard work, such as the Picasso96 story.
Please remember that in the beginning, their Voodoo drivers *were* going to
be done by the CyberGraphX people. Those guys then signed an exclusivity
deal with DCE to do their drivers, leaving Elbox in an incredibly difficult
position where they would have found it difficult to trust anyone else to
write drivers for them. They'd got ethernet drivers done, but the biggest
appeal of the Mediator (and other PCI cards) is the graphics card. They
needed to produce a graphics card driver very quickly in order to make
their product viable. I bet Elbox spent an awful lot of money on R&D for
their card, which would all be for nothing if they couldn't sell any. What
would you do?
As for going to court, I didn't say that they had any kind of hard evidence
with which they could credibly pursue a court action, hence no court action
is taking place.
>
>
Regards
Matthew.
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