First of all, I'd like to applaud AMD for the fantastic work they've done with the radeon drivers, and you personally, bridgman, for the work and community relations you've maintained. It's quite frankly, brilliant. That said:
I simply cannot agree with this assertion, you have absolutely no reliable metric for measuring the volume of desktop radeon usage. Furthermore, even if this were true, it is in AMD's best interests to have an fglrx which supports the latest X.org and Linux kernel releases, so when a workstation customer buys a FireGL card, the drivers will already be stable and well tested on whatever 'Enterprise' distro they go with. Not that all workstation customers *will* use an 'Enterprise' distro either. And I'm sure they wont be amused when their $2,000 paperweight wont work on their machine. I'm sure you can agree that kind of situation is not in AMD's best interests since it gives away custom to nVidia.
Originally posted by bridgman
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