Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th May 2007 18:17 UTC, submitted by diegocg

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I disagree; as 'technical users' we're the ideal customer - we don't ask for technical support, we tend to purchase those cards with good margins, and we evangelise when good support is provided for our operating system of choice - free PR for the company
More importantly, we have a large influence over end users by virtue of being the 'go to guy' when people want advice over what hardware or software to purchase - we give advice, we install it for them, we configure it for them.
All I say to the likes of Ati, Nvidia and Intel - fear the geek, because we have great influence over our friend's and family's purchasing decisions - piss us off with an anti-UNIX stance by virtue of failing to provide drivers for our operating system of choice, and face people getting advice not to purchase hardware from your company.