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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!leasion!leasion!not-for-mail From: mark@leasion.demon.co.uk (Mark Evans) 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: 30 Mar 1996 11:25:41 GMT Organization: Electronic Services Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4jj5nl$79@leasion.demon.co.uk> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j3muv$34m@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4j3v64$1rq@virtech.aib.com> <4j7dg2$t3t@moacs11.moacs.indiv.nl.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: leasion.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: leasion.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13750 comp.os.linux.development.system:20143 comp.os.linux.x:27795 comp.os.linux.hardware:34574 comp.os.linux.setup:47555 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:320 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2819 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2599 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16139 Waldi Ravens (waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net) wrote: : 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: : > >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. : : Boy, have I got news for you. Unlike you believe, USA laws do not aplly : to the whole universe. They only apply to the USA. But most likely you Indeed in other parts of the world it can well be that the condition not to reverse engineer is illegal. : wouldn't even know that other countries exist. This is a very often seen attitude from many people in the USA.. : : > 2) You will make no friends in the XFree86[TM] community by doing so. We : > will do all in our power to stop you. : : I'm very impressed by your threads. I assure you, I would be most unhappy : not to make friends with a community that posseses final wisdom and rules : the universe. Undoubtedly all dutch judges will fall on their knees and : beg forgiveness, when they realize they sinned against the Law of the : allmighty XFree86 Community, whose name shallt not be spoken in vain. And the judges from the rest of the EU maybe...