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> I think it is worth saying that the Macintosh market is not that small AS
> LONG AS THE AUDIO DRIVERS are concerned. In fact, the only market shares
> Apple still owns are :
> 
> -prepress (although it is slowly moving to NT, which is sad because
> PowerPC's are faster than Pentium with 2D transforms)
> -education (some high-volume orders from governments in UK and US, I think)
> -music
> 
> However, I totally agree with the fact the we must code drivers for cards
> people actually own ;-)

Well said, but let's not forget that the primary motivator for free software
is self interest.  People write the free software that they want to use.

That said, the number of people who need to own a card before it becomes
supported is 1, provided that that one person is the driver author.

Eric

