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From: dawes@xfree86.org (David Dawes)
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 3 Apr 1996 08:40:44 GMT
Organization: The XFree86 Project, Inc
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In article <willmore.827954346@whelk>,
David A Willmore <willmore@whelk.cig.mot.com> wrote:
>mark@hunter.mas.org (Mark Swanson) writes:
>
>>I think their policy is just fine. One must respect a companies right to
>>protect intellectual property. Their attitude is snotty and arrogant, but
>>their policy shouldn't be too surprising. I should think that we (the Linux
>>community) have the intelligence to route around this. Why can't the XFree86
>>team just distribute the binaries for certain cards? Do what you can for free
>>software but living or dying by it results in no support for this type of
>>hardware. There will ALWAYS be this type of hardware around that Linux
>>users would like to use.
>
>
>For one, they can't distribute just the binaries as portions of the code
>are distributed and used under the GPL which forbids binary only distribution.
None of XFree86 is covered in any way by the GPL.
David
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