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Xref: sserve comp.unix.sysv386:23689 comp.windows.x:45141 comp.os.linux:9961 comp.unix.bsd:5014 comp.os.mach:2132 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:21512 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:31093 Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!phylo!badger From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products References: <1992Sep10.130359.24767@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Sep11.124831.10108@crd.ge.com> <1992Sep12.035549.4743@zeos.com> <1992Sep13.142036.26842@nuchat.sccsi.com> Message-ID: <badger.716406960@phylo> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:56:00 GMT Keywords: Diamond, free-software Lines: 15 steve@nuchat.sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia) writes: >In <1992Sep12.035549.4743@zeos.com> kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes: >>The solution for the support of X/Windows in the Freeware arena or >>any other arena would be to design a VESA based driver for these >The solution, for those of us who care about such things, is to >not buy undocumented hardware. Vote with your wallet. >-- >Steve Nuchia South Coast Computing Services, Inc. (713) 661-3301 Yes, but most people (at the time of purchase) don't know if the hardware is going to be documented or not, which makes this sort of voting impossible Jonathan Badger (an owner of a Dimond Stealth card for six months)