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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!news.inc.net!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!isr0954!mitch From: mitch@isr0954.urh.uiuc.edu (Jon Mitchell) 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: 25 Mar 1996 18:01:54 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4j6n2i$at3@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <slrn4lbb5r.ai.mark@hunter.mas.org> <stephenkDotwzE.52L@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: isr0954.urh.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13655 comp.os.linux.development.system:19988 comp.os.linux.x:27589 comp.os.linux.hardware:34322 comp.os.linux.setup:47179 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:289 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2780 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2554 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15991 stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) writes: >In article <slrn4lbb5r.ai.mark@hunter.mas.org> mark@hunter.mas.org (Mark Swanson) writes: >>On 23 Mar 1996 17:34:09 -0600, Peter F. McDermott <pmcdermo@cs.utexas.edu> wrote: >>>Some companies just don't get it. Valdimir Vukicevic on the XFree86-3D list >>>requested information on Matrox's card (first message) and received the >>>second message as a reply. Unless Matrox changes their mind on release of >>>information, I suggest no one interested in running a free Unix system >>>buy their products. >>> >> >>I think their policy is just fine. One must respect a companies right to >>protect intellectual property. Their attitude is snotty and arrogant, but >>their policy shouldn't be too surprising. I should think that we (the Linux >>community) have the intelligence to route around this. Why can't the XFree86 >>team just distribute the binaries for certain cards? Do what you can for free >>software but living or dying by it results in no support for this type of >>hardware. There will ALWAYS be this type of hardware around that Linux >>users would like to use. >> >> >If they want to do this, FINE! GREAT! They should just STOP selling their >card as an IBM VGA/SVGA compatible card, and make it OBVIOUS that it is NOT! Sorry, come again. Their card is an VGA compatible card. Your zippy like caps and low grasp of the issue is making it obvious that you are just trying to cause strife and have no real point. We are talking about the higher end graphics that the card can support, specifically the OpenGL features. Jon Mitchell \ [Fun-Boy] Sleep is for weaklings! jrmitche@uiuc.edu \ Linux 2.0: Coming soon to a computer near you. CCSO Site Consultant \ These views have _nothing_ to do with CCSO.