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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!hecate.umd.edu!cville-srv.wam.umd.edu!fms From: fms@wam.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin) 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 Followup-To: 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 Date: 24 Mar 1996 23:40:50 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4j4mi2$86f@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j3muv$34m@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4j3v64$1rq@virtech.aib.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rac2.wam.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13554 comp.os.linux.development.system:19855 comp.os.linux.x:27394 comp.os.linux.hardware:34088 comp.os.linux.setup:46762 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:267 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2733 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2519 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15851 David E. Wexelblat (dwex@aib.com) wrote: : >Take the existing drivers. Disassemble. Take a look. If they do not : >care about you, why should you care about their stinking industrial : >secrets? : 1) It's illegal. It is completely legal to do so, as long as you haven't signed a non-disclosure agreement and are not using what you find to gain profit. : 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 sounds like a political program :) I think you are a bit off the target though :) : 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. Was I proposing to start making counterfieted Matrox boards? =) I thought the original post was about drivers, not about cloning the hardware. : Idiots like you are what gives free software a bad name. If you were trying to flame, it wasn't such a good attempt. Marat