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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: X-windows & Diamond VLB Date: 15 Jul 1993 21:02:31 GMT Organization: Montana State University Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <224gl7$fvj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <michaelv.742745330@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <224eor$88t@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <224eor$88t@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com writes: >In article 742745330@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu, michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >>Diamond doesn't like you. You run free software, so are evil. >>Nevermind that you paid them good money for a card. You cannot have a >>graphics driver for their card without also paying for it. > >[...] >>There are many quality graphics cards on the market. If possible, you >>might try taking this card back to where you bought it and buy one >>from someone who cares a little more about their customer base, and a >>little bit less about their bottom line. > >How about a company that cares more about their customer base, and MORE >about their bottom line? Diamond's policy loses Diamond money and gains >them nothing. It is being kept out of ignorance, not out of greed. Diamond is fully aware of their losses from not supplying programming information. They were told by the XFree86 group a long while back, along with some numbers that explained lost sales due to their "policy" of not distributing the information. They are not ignorant of the lost sales, they just don't care. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)