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From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
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 *I'M* not happy with XInside's Matrox support (was Re: Sometimes you need X server source)
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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 19:59:17 GMT
Organization: The Home For Three Headed Canines
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References: <4ja28c$9da@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4jb67e$eil@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <ROELL.96Mar28184328@blah.xinside.com> <4jhl5p$59t@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <315d5ef6.0@sylvia.tummy.com> <slongDp419I.JEy@netcom.com> <4jo91d$682@grobbebol.xs4all.nl>
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Roeland Th. Jansen (bengel@xs4all.nl) wrote:

: reading the thread for some time now, I see "we" have two camps. One that is
: willing to pay for a piece of software and hardware because they acnowledge
: the fact that nothing is free -- and the camp of people who simply don't
: want to pay money at all.

That's not quite right, what we really have is a large group who will
not pay for hardware/software combinations UNLESS they deliver a measurable
improvement in performance and usability over the existing free software
with it's supported hardware.
 
--

anthony

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