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From: dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat)
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 24 Mar 1996 12:01:56 -0500
Organization: AIB Software Corporation
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In article <4j3muv$34m@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>,
Marat Fayzullin <fms@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
>Peter F. McDermott (pmcdermo@cs.utexas.edu) wrote:
>: Unix/Linux drivers & support for all our boards are available from X-Inside
>: at 303-384-9999. We have a closed architecture chip set. We have the fastest
>: board on the market. The reason for this is our chip set. We did not create
>: our own chip set, in which we spent millions of dollars, so that our
>: competitors can steal our designs. We are not like Cirrus or Diamond that
>: uses a Generic S3 chip set which every one has the source code. The company
>: policy is that we can not give any information on our chip sets under a non
>: disclosure agreement. We have nothing to do with unix/linux. We do not
>: create the drivers, we do not support the drivers, most of us have never
>: even seen unix/linux let alone the drivers. If you have any problems with
>: the drivers, contact X-inside. They do the Drivers, Support. X-Inside can be
>: reached at 303-384-9999.
>Take the existing drivers. Disassemble. Take a look. If they do not
>care about you, why should you care about their stinking industrial
>secrets?
>
>Marat
>
>
>

1) It's illegal.
2) You will make no friends in the XFree86[TM] community by doing so.  We
   will do all in our power to stop you.

This same brain-dead logic could be applied to counterfieting - the US
treasury wants to be the only one able to make $100 bills, so screw them,
just make your own on a color copier.

Idiots like you are what gives free software a bad name.

--
David Wexelblat             (703) 787-7700                     dwex@aib.com
PLATINUM technology, inc    (703) 787-7720 (fax)    http://www.platinum.com
AIB Software Lab            1145 Herndon Parkway         Herndon, VA  22070

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