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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!cambridge-news.cygnus.com!usenet-ma From: meissner@cygnus.com (Michael Meissner) 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,misc.consumers Subject: Re: Why not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 08 Aug 1996 13:36:38 -0400 Organization: Cygnus Support Lines: 14 Sender: meissner@tiktok.cygnus.com Message-ID: <syybjpvkux.fsf@tiktok.cygnus.com> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <stephenkDvp30A.366@netcom.com> <4u7hv4$jcd@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <slrn50epup.vrk.knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr> <4u9oeg$91j@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> <32093E50.39EB@aloha.net> <slrn50ipqh.a9.cbbrowne@dantzig.brownes.org> <32097C81.167EB0E7@star-gate.com> <3209F875.3652CCE1@pobox.com> <slrn50jupd.nc2.knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr> <4ucvq1$k55@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tiktok.cygnus.com In-reply-to: grail@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu's message of 8 Aug 1996 15:06:41 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:20066 comp.os.linux.development.system:29436 comp.os.linux.x:37609 comp.os.linux.hardware:46990 comp.os.linux.setup:67885 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1005 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4550 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4312 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:25186 misc.consumers:93967 In article <4ucvq1$k55@solaris.cc.vt.edu> grail@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu (Giao Nguyen) writes: | The answer is for XFree to purchase the same information. Now, there would | have to be a deal of somesort to compensate for the high prices of the | proprietary information that way everything would be competitive. As it is | XFree doesn't have any money so that idea goes out the window. Well there is the sticky problem that since source to XFree86 is available to all, it is kind of hard for them to sign a NDA, even if they had the money. -- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Support (East Coast) 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA meissner@cygnus.com, 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)