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From: warwick@cs.uq.edu.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 15 Apr 1996 05:31:22 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Queensland
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
>It also seems logical that commercial users (ie: people who spend
>money) making complaints to their vendors and to Matrox ...
>would have ... more effect than angry threads by Linux and BSD proponents.
Rubbish. Matrox produce hardware. Free Unix users *LOVE* hardware, and some
spend more than the average user. They also have the ear of many many many
other users.
Matrox will lose N sales due to this thread, no amount of pandering to
Xinside's little monopoly is going to change that. The Matrox Millennium
will in time be superceded by a competitors product, and life will go on.
Me: I'd heard of the MM wizbang WRAM blah-blah graphics card, but now I
know not to touch them.
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Warwick
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