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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 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!ka.sub.net!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 14:20:12 GMT Message-ID: <Dovp5p.C62@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Lines: 18 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13726 comp.os.linux.development.system:20100 comp.os.linux.x:27748 comp.os.linux.hardware:34507 comp.os.linux.setup:47462 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:308 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2805 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2584 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16093 In <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Thomas.Weihrich@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE (Thomas Weihrich) writes: >They are afraid of reverse >engineering - as are many of the pc card vendors - did you ever care to >read Adaptec's policy on giving out their hardware documentation (and I >do not mean jumper settings) ? Adaptec hasn't had a problem with giving out their *hardware* documentation for the 77xx, 78xx chips without NDA. How do you supposed, the 77xx, 78xx drivers for NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux were done? What they have a problem with is giving the source code for their firmware away without NDA. -- Christoph Badura bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org You don't need to quote my .signature. Everyone has seen it by now. Besides, it doesn't add anything to the current thread.