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From: vern@zebra.alphacdc.com (Vern Hoxie)
Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium)
Message-ID: <Dp7qIJ.C8H@zebra.alphacdc.com>
Organization: Denver, Colo.
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 02:20:43 GMT
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In article <4jc1cv$ja4@library.erc.clarkson.edu>,
Mark Komarinski <komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> wrote:
>erik@fenris.campus.vt.edu wrote:
Deletions ...
>: Not that Xinside is bad.. if money can be made off software, I don't blame
>: people for doing so. But for students with limited budgets and hobbyists
>: with even more limited budgets, and everyone wanting to tweak their systems,
>: Xinside doesn't meet their needs. Xinside is good for those who want a
>: system that comes up out of the box.. Windows 95, OS/2, etc, all meet these
>: same needs.
>
>I have AccelX and am quite happy with it for two reasons:
>1) I can run my Mach-32 card in 64k colors. XF86 can't.
>2) It is faster than XF86.
Yes you can't use your Mach-32 with XF86 nor can I because ATI and AST are
as paranoid about others finding out what secrets they have stolen. The
real thievery is by buying the developers themselves as employees.
>Those were my two requirements when I bought AccelX, and it met those
>requirements. If your requirements are different than that, that's your
>choice.
I bought a machine which was supposed to have particular capabilities. But
those capabilities are restricted by the lack of interface information.
Even when I spend extra money for their half-witted manuals, I still can't
realize the capability I purchased.
Isn't fraud the failure to fulfill promised results?
>: And as the students/hobbyists of the world, we have the talents and the
>: skills and the dedication to reverse engineer just about any software
>: out there.
>
>The legality is a bit fuzzy :), but go for it.
Won't society be better served if these efforts could be devoted to new
knowledge instead of having to decipher something known and paid for?
All this secrecy is really the result of MBA's and LLD's strutting around
trying to justify their existence.
vern
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