Not really. They may not have seen that support for other chip architectures would be a money maker. They obviously didn't think it would be enough of a money maker to spend money doing it.
The case at hand shows that if you have open source drivers though, that you gain access to an army of folks who get paid by other people to further develop your product. Here's where they were wrong (though perhaps not moronically so) and why they missed a huge order.
The case at hand shows that if you have open source drivers though, that you gain access to an army of folks who get paid by other people to further develop your product. Here's where they were wrong (though perhaps not moronically so) and why they missed a huge order.