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From: mark@leasion.demon.co.uk (Mark Evans)
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
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Date: 30 Mar 1996 11:43:16 GMT
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Vern Hoxie (vern@zebra.alphacdc.com) wrote:
: In article <4j6msk$ho@darkstar.my.lan>,
: Alexander Sanda <alex@darkstar.ping.at> wrote:
: >In article <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu>
: >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 can understand this behavior. Matrox has developed one of the most
: >sophisticated graphics board for the PC. The Millenium seems to be the
: >fastest card available today. They want their technology not to be
: >stolen by competitors - I think, it's not so hard to understand.
: 
: Is it that they don't want their technology stolen by competitor's or is it
: that they don't want the competitors to learn which of their innovations
: Matrox stole from them.
: 
: There are easier ways to steal technology than to steal it by reverse
: engineering.  Just hire the people who developed it in the first place.

Or take the hardware and examine how it works.