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From: Andi Kleen <andi@mlm.extern.lrz-muenchen.de>
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Subject: Re: Why not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 10 Aug 1996 17:50:11 +0200
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
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nil@akula.com (Stan Lobunets) writes:

> So how is it that Metro-X supports the Millenium? Did they reverse engineer 
> the card?

Metro is a commercial company that doesn't release sources with
their product so they can sign a NDA. XFree developers can't do this
because they give source away.

-Andi