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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:27:03 GMT
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In article <4j6msk$ho@darkstar.my.lan> alex@darkstar.ping.at (Alexander Sanda) writes:
>I can understand this behaviour. [...]
>They want their technology not to be
>stolen by competitors - I think, it's not so hard to understand.
It's hard to see how concealing programming information stops their
technology being "stolen", as you put it.
In any case, if enough people boycott their products then maybe they
will decide that they're losing more than they gain.
-- Richard
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