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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 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!mail2news.alias.net!myriad!mylinuxbox!suck!netcom.com!stephenk From: stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Message-ID: <stephenkDp21Cz.Ex6@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <4j3muv$34m@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4j3v64$1rq@virtech.aib.com> <4jdgf1$1ek@master.ftn.net> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 00:29:22 GMT Lines: 54 Sender: stephenk@netcom4.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14080 comp.os.linux.development.system:20597 comp.os.linux.x:28449 comp.os.linux.hardware:35320 comp.os.linux.setup:48838 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:430 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2965 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2730 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16579 In article <4jdgf1$1ek@master.ftn.net> wolly@icacomp.com (wolly) writes: >In article <4j3v64$1rq@virtech.aib.com>, dwex@aib.com says... >> >>In article <4j3muv$34m@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, >>Marat Fayzullin <fms@wam.umd.edu> wrote: >>>Peter F. McDermott (pmcdermo@cs.utexas.edu) wrote: >>>: Unix/Linux drivers & support for all our boards are available from X-Inside >> >//things cut out > >e existing drivers. Disassemble. Take a look. If they do not >>>care about you, why should you care about their stinking industrial >>>secrets? >>> >>>Marat >> >>1) It's illegal. >>2) You will make no friends in the XFree86[TM] community by doing so. We >> will do all in our power to stop you. >> >>This same brain-dead logic could be applied to counterfieting - the US >>treasury wants to be the only one able to make $100 bills, so screw them, >>just make your own on a color copier. >> >>Idiots like you are what gives free software a bad name. >> > >Now now, using terminology like 'idiots' is not very constructive. But it IS true! >Secondly, Matrox's attitude is understandable as the Linux market is not >profitable when compared to Windows. It is NOT moral, and technically not LEGAL! FURTHER, they could lose business ELSEWHERE! We are NOT talking about linux! We are talking about ANY system that they don't SPECIFICALLY support! Some graphics programs, EVEN IN DOS, may FAIL! >Persons venting their frustrations >are doing just that. If they start giving away dissassembled code then that >is another matter. Otherwise you have taken it far too seriously and are >making an issue of guys that are pissed off because most of the commercial >world ignores Linux. You know NOTHING about it! SYNERGEX, STALLION, MICROFOCUS, and MANY other companies are now supporting LINUX! >Take a breather and relax... the analogy with the US >treasure is pretty dumb when you think about it...