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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!news From: hafner@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de (Walter 'madhouse' Hafner) 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 to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 15 Apr 1996 16:09:58 GMT Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Lines: 37 Distribution: world Message-ID: <HAFNER.96Apr15181000@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de> References: <4jv7of$m5t@park.uvsc.edu> <stephenkDpCt4A.LxJ@netcom.com> <4kfk15$dgs@coyote.Artisoft.COM> <stephenkDpnHM8.864@netcom.com> <31702BA0.58F7B46@lambert.org> <199604142243.XAA04706@kythera.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de In-reply-to: Ray Auchterlounie's message of Sun, 14 Apr 1996 23:43:06 +0100 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14451 comp.os.linux.development.system:21363 comp.os.linux.x:29323 comp.os.linux.hardware:36333 comp.os.linux.setup:50516 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:586 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3192 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3000 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17323 >>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 -- Walter Hafner_____________________________ hafner@forwiss.tu-muenchen.de FORWISS Muenchen, FG Kognitive Systeme, Raum O-134, Tel: 089/48095-220 R)etry, A)bort F)reebsd ? <A href=http://www.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de/~hafner/index.html>*CLICK*</A>