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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.akula.com!lnx From: nil@akula.com (Stan Lobunets) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why not buy Matrox Millennium Date: Sat, 10 Aug 96 14:35:38 GMT Organization: Akula Communications Corp. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4ui6o4$b0n@news.akula.com> References: <4j21ph$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> <320B5C98.38201961@xinside.com> <320B894A.5BFAB1C1@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-10.pm1.nyc.akula.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:20164 comp.os.linux.development.system:29532 comp.os.linux.x:37703 comp.os.linux.hardware:47135 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1016 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4568 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4338 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:25274 In article <320B894A.5BFAB1C1@pobox.com>, Subhas Roy <subhas@pobox.com> wrote: >I have no idea why Matrox would try to force such a self-defeating NDA >upon Xfree86. Diamond understood their previous mistake of forcing NDA >and now they cooperate with Xfree876. Matrox itself created the ground >for such speculations because (to my knowledge) they don't explain their >position. They lost and are losing potential customers like me who want >to use Xfree86. Now some of the posts suggest that Matrox too is going >to release the needed info. If they announce that in this newsgroup >that would be good. So how is it that Metro-X supports the Millenium? Did they reverse engineer the card?