Netkas has posted on his site an image from an Ebay ad for 4890.
I went and did a search, there are no fewer than 3 sellers I saw here in US hawking 4890s. My first thought is I wonder if any of the "please help me with my 4890 for my home use" folks I helped were actually people looking to make a buck. This galls me a little.
But I think my big concern is that none of these ads have so much as a mention of the fact that when 10.6.3, etc come out, that these sellers are basically counting on Netkas to do their Customer Service and write another QE/CI patch for them. Nowhere do they mention that these cards become paperweights if Netkas goes boating for 2 weeks. I tried to write a QE/CI patch once like his...more to it than just the obvious. I do believe that Cindori tried as well recently and finally had to admit that Netkas' patch was needed.
So a word to the wise....Netkas has been kind enough to think up the original 4890 ROM. He then wrote the patch to enable 3D. Why are these people expecting him to continue supporting the things they are making money off of?Use your heads folks...Netkas owes us NOTHING. If he gets annoyed or bored with doing free customer service for everybody it won't be good.
The decent thing is to give credit where due. And I think anyone selling 4890s should approach Netkas and ask if he will continue to support their product...in fact they should send him a piece of the pie. Tight economy...everyone is hurting a little...but that doesn't mean you can just walk over the lines of decency and make money off other people's work and give them no credit. (Psystar has already done enough of this)
I would like to believe that if those sellers make any new discoveries after helping themselves to the work done here, that they will share their knowledge and do some "giving" to match the "taking" they have already done.
I went and did a search, there are no fewer than 3 sellers I saw here in US hawking 4890s. My first thought is I wonder if any of the "please help me with my 4890 for my home use" folks I helped were actually people looking to make a buck. This galls me a little.
But I think my big concern is that none of these ads have so much as a mention of the fact that when 10.6.3, etc come out, that these sellers are basically counting on Netkas to do their Customer Service and write another QE/CI patch for them. Nowhere do they mention that these cards become paperweights if Netkas goes boating for 2 weeks. I tried to write a QE/CI patch once like his...more to it than just the obvious. I do believe that Cindori tried as well recently and finally had to admit that Netkas' patch was needed.
So a word to the wise....Netkas has been kind enough to think up the original 4890 ROM. He then wrote the patch to enable 3D. Why are these people expecting him to continue supporting the things they are making money off of?Use your heads folks...Netkas owes us NOTHING. If he gets annoyed or bored with doing free customer service for everybody it won't be good.
The decent thing is to give credit where due. And I think anyone selling 4890s should approach Netkas and ask if he will continue to support their product...in fact they should send him a piece of the pie. Tight economy...everyone is hurting a little...but that doesn't mean you can just walk over the lines of decency and make money off other people's work and give them no credit. (Psystar has already done enough of this)
I would like to believe that if those sellers make any new discoveries after helping themselves to the work done here, that they will share their knowledge and do some "giving" to match the "taking" they have already done.
