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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!pier2.bayarea.net!baygate.bayarea.net!thorpej From: thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net (Jason R. Thorpe) 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: ANNOUNCE: XFree86 Matrox Millenium News Date: 2 Sep 1996 21:03:41 GMT Organization: George's NetBSD answer man Lines: 19 Message-ID: <50fi3d$5q6@pier2.bayarea.net> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <503p2a$9v@anorak.coverform.lan> <322AC1C6.2402@mail2.svhm.org.au> <50f3fc$1id@knot.queensu.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: baygate.bayarea.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:21490 comp.os.linux.development.system:31171 comp.os.linux.x:39941 comp.os.linux.hardware:49423 comp.os.linux.setup:71859 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1098 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4784 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4550 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:26675 In article <50f3fc$1id@knot.queensu.ca>, Frampton Steve R <3srf@qlink.queensu.ca> wrote: >Fantastic news! This is totally unexpected. Folks, if you decide to >reward Matrox with a purchase, make sure you somehow let them know if >their change of heart affected your decision! A good idea ... lots of "grass roots" efforts consider it important to let the "establishment" know why a purchase was made in these sorts of situations... Examples are far from the topics of these newsgroups, though :-) >Another major victory for Linux. Err, actually, a major victory for the XFree86 effort and free OSs everywhere. -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@bayarea.net>