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From: hafner@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de (Walter 'madhouse' Hafner)
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 15 Apr 1996 16:09:58 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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In-reply-to: Ray Auchterlounie's message of Sun, 14 Apr 1996 23:43:06 +0100
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>>On Sun, 14 Apr 1996 23:43:06 +0100, Ray Auchterlounie <rda@kythera.demon.co.uk> said:
RA> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>> Stephen Knilans wrote:
RA> [...]
>> ] It IS hard to support cards that are made by someone like
>> ] Matrox though!
>> No it's not. Sign the non-disclosure and limit yourself to
>> distributing binaries.
RA> [...]
RA> It's harder than that. Unless you are a corporation (eg. if you are,
RA> say, an academic research group) it seems that they wont even talk to
RA> you about it.
Huh?
Well, we _are_ an academic research group (University of Technology,
Munich) and we have no problems with Matrox in any way. In fact we are
planning a project in cooperation with Matrox just now. They assured us
of every support they can give.
RA> Furthermore it appears (from some of the recent postings in this
RA> group) that XInside have an _exclusive_ deal to provide "drivers" for
RA> X/Unix.
Not, that I know of ...
-Walter
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