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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!rtech!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: X-Windows support for VGA boards Message-ID: <hastyCFKn37.8I@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <MARK_WEAVER.93Oct26070023@excelsior.cis.brown.edu> <hastyCFJ08y.LBJ@netcom.com> <CFK83z.Gw5@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 19:49:54 GMT Lines: 34 In article <CFK83z.Gw5@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) writes: >In article <hastyCFJ08y.LBJ@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >>I can't speak for XFree86 -- but I can tell you that I don't support >>Diamond Products. > >I am not nuts about Diamond's idea of support as well, but the fact of >the matter is that many Xfree86 users -do- have them. The -only- ones >hurt by our bad attitutes towards Diamond are these users, not Diamond. > >Yes, I know that Diamond's research showed that our 'embargo' did have a >noted effect on their sales ... but really folks. I called them and spoke >with them on the phone and honstly they just don't care. > Look we operate on a shoe-string operation mode. Policies such as Diamond just make our job harder which we are not getting paid for. Not only that but we can be legally at risk for programming their "precious" clock. About Gateway you always have a choice just ask them. Don't forget that you can always sell your Diamond card on the net. In 2010: You may have all the worlds in the universe except for this one. Good Day, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming