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#! rnews 4315 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!usenet From: Rick Forrister <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov> 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: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:01:50 -0800 Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena CA Lines: 60 Message-ID: <315AC5FE.63BC@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov> 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: glacier.jpl.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) To: Waldi Ravens <waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13812 comp.os.linux.development.system:20242 comp.os.linux.x:27928 comp.os.linux.hardware:34722 comp.os.linux.setup:47823 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:351 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2851 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2631 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16232 Waldi Ravens 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 > wouldn't even know that other countries exist. =========================================================================== That USA laws don't apply to the whole universe isn't the point. They _DO_ apply in the USA, howevermuch we may disagree with many of them. If XFree86 is here, then they are _EXTREMELY_ susceptable to legal action against them. As far as not knowing about other countries, your lack of knowledge about legal liability, and about efforts within XFree86 to earn respect and support from recalcitrant companies like MGA/Matrox shows a phenominal level of ignorance. Out of curiousity, just what the hell have _YOU_ ever contributed to the world-wide Linux community, other than a loud mouth? ============================================================================ > > > 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. > > > Idiots like you are what gives free software a bad name. > > Thanks for showing your face so clearly. You're certainly doing all you > can to give XFree86 a good name. > > Waldi > -- > Never let your schooling interfere with your education. Davids choice of words might have been more polite, but it doesn't change the restrictions he and the rest of the XFree86 community have to live with. You (and I) know damned little about what efforts they're making on everyone's behalf. Why not do something constructive, like asking them if there's anything you can do that might help open MGA/Matrox up into supporting the Linux community, as Diamond finally did? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Rick Forrister | <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov | | Win 95: Where do you want to go today? | | Linux: What do you want tomorrow? | -------------------------------------------------------------------