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FW: [ati] cc: message sent to ATI marketing



... and I am one of those suckers who bought ATI All In One Wonder.
<sob> <weep>
I already signed the petition organized by the members of the ati@veiled.net
mailing list.
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-----Original Message-----
From:	Warren Postma [SMTP:wpostma@ztr.com]
Sent:	Tue December 01 1998 16:57
To:	ati@veiled.net
Subject:	[ati] cc: message sent to ATI marketing

After reading on the list about the FAQ entry at support.atitech.com I
read that
page and then send this message off.

Warren Postma

=======================

Quoted from your web page:

>Video Input/Output, TV Tuner, Video Capture and DVD
>ATI Technical Support is not currently aware of any software which
supports the video 
>input/output, TV Tuner, Video Capture or DVD playback features of ATI
products in a 
>UNIX Environment.
>ATI Technical Support is not aware of any plans to produce such
software.
>ATI Technical Support does not distribute hardware-level programming
materials to 
>individuals wishing to implement these features.

If I was you, I'd be rushing to get your hardware supported.  But it
sounds like 
you've been asked before and for some reason (known only to yourselves
and God) you don't want your hardware to be the hardware of choice for
customers using
Unix or for that matter any other open-standards based environments.

We'd like to use and recommend your hardware to our members, but since
you have 
decided to hold your cards close to your chest, and you're not the only
game in 
town, we've personally decided not to support or recommend your hardware
to our 
users.

Should you decide you want to play nice and release detailed programming
information on your hardware, we'd love to talk to you again.  Until
then, 
I wish you the best of luck, but I fear you're going to miss out on this
whole market. 

Last week when I learned that you were not interested in releasing
programming
information on your video cards I decided to buy from a competitor. We
get many
inquiries about what hardware we recommend. ATI is now off that list. If
you won't
release your TV Tuner card information, then what hope have we that you
will do so
with any other product. 

When (if?) you wake up, drop us a note. We'd like to start recommending
ATI product
again, but for now we won't be.

Warren Postma
President, London Linux Users Group