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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!virtech.aib.com!virtech.aib.com!not-for-mail From: dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 24 Mar 1996 12:01:56 -0500 Organization: AIB Software Corporation Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4j3v64$1rq@virtech.aib.com> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j3muv$34m@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: virtech.aib.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13533 comp.os.linux.development.system:19838 comp.os.linux.x:27361 comp.os.linux.hardware:34063 comp.os.linux.setup:46716 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:263 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2729 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2515 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15835 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 Mail regarding XFree86[TM] should be sent to <xfree86@xfree86.org> "You are a sad, strange little man" -- Buzz Lightyear, "Toy Story"