Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.unix.sysv386:23693 comp.windows.x:45145 comp.os.linux:9966 comp.unix.bsd:5020 comp.os.mach:2135 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:21518 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:31114 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!sun-barr!olivea!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!harp From: harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) 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 Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products Keywords: Diamond, free-software Message-ID: <a1xny5p.harp@netcom.com> Date: 13 Sep 92 20:34:36 GMT References: <1992Sep12.035549.4743@zeos.com> <1992Sep13.142036.26842@nuchat.sccsi.com> <badger.716406960@phylo> <1992Sep13.185117.12224@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 29 terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > If they aren't willing to open the box to check for documentation, >what makes you think they're going to take an opened box back when the >board isn't documented or is defective? Yeah, but what video card company (or SCSI card company, or sound card company, or ...) packages technical docs with their product? None that I've seen... When I bought my Stealth VRAM (which is for sale, BTW ;) ) there was no reason for me to think it wouldn't be supported by more than a half a dozen (or so) apps. I had no idea Diamond would be so paranoid about their products. The board was very well rated by BYTE (the fastest S3 board, I believe) and that all I had to go on. Their Speedstar Plus was also held in high regard. Since I was buying a whole system at the time, I didn't have a chance to wait and see how things turned out. There was no indication at the time that I needed to anyway. On my most recent contract I was programming for an Orchid ProDesigner IIs. Orchid was thrilled to death to send me docs. That's why the board I bought to replace my Stealth is a ProDesigner IIs. A good card with good support. -- -----------------Greg-Harp----------------harp@netcom.com------------------ Love me, love my ferrets. "Break out of the mold before Or at least love my ferrets. ;) the mold sets in" -- B52's