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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 27 Mar 1996 08:22:52 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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melevitt@syr.edu (Mark Levitt) writes:

>   This is not, contrary to what everyone seems to think, illegal.
> Even in the US.  It IS however, probably a violation of the license
> agreement that comes with Matrox's drivers.  It's not a criminal
> act.  It may be actionable in civil court though as a contractual
> violation.

This is the difference between you and us.  For the European
Community, such a license agreement is certainly void.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)