🚀 go-pugleaf

So why doesn't 3dfx just contract to make the boards themselves and sell
them direct, as well as distributing them? They'd make a LOT more money.
Creative and Diamond are hardly DESIGNING boards, they take the 3dfx
reference design/drivers and produce it, then slap little "DIAMOND" and
"CREATIVE" logos on both. Hardly a feat of engineering genius.

Jeff

Ronald Stoehr wrote in message <34F3E428.1FFF@lts.sel.alcatel.de>...
>Jeff Atwood wrote:
>>
>> Fuckin' A. Cut out the middleman and lets just send our money directly to
>> 3dfx. They deserve it a hell of a lot more than Diamond or Creative. I
hate
>> middlemen. They don't deserve a dime.
>>
>> Jeff
>
>Well, the word middlemen is not the right one for board makers. 3Dfx
>produces
>chip sets, they don't do the boards. So you don't want to pay Diamond or
>Creative for producing the boards? Hmm, where do we plug those chips
>from
>3Dfx?? ;^)
>
>BTW, I probably will rethink my decision to buy the next Voodoo board
>from
>the "jewel company"...
>
>l8er
>ronny
>
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