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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!in1.uu.net!news.graphics.cornell.edu!tuba.cit.cornell.edu!crux1!sl14 From: sl14@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (S. Lee) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,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 20:33:54 GMT Organization: Nekomi Institute of Technology Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4j4bji$f63@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j3muv$34m@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4j3v64$1rq@virtech.aib.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.253.232.60 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.hardware:34073 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:264 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2730 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2516 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15842 In article <4j3v64$1rq@virtech.aib.com>, David E. Wexelblat <dwex@aib.com> wrote: >In article <4j3muv$34m@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, >Marat Fayzullin <fms@wam.umd.edu> wrote: [Matrox] >>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. How sure are you of this? I think companies have reverse-engineered and got away with it, so it might not be that illegal afterall. Newsgroup line trimmed. sl14@cornell.edu Witty .sig under construction.