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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!leasion!leasion!not-for-mail From: mark@leasion.demon.co.uk (Mark Evans) 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: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Followup-To: 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 Date: 30 Mar 1996 11:43:16 GMT Organization: Electronic Services Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4jj6ok$79@leasion.demon.co.uk> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j6msk$ho@darkstar.my.lan> <Dox50I.o5K@zebra.alphacdc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: leasion.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: leasion.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13753 comp.os.linux.development.system:20146 comp.os.linux.x:27798 comp.os.linux.hardware:34577 comp.os.linux.setup:47558 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:323 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2822 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2602 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16142 Vern Hoxie (vern@zebra.alphacdc.com) wrote: : In article <4j6msk$ho@darkstar.my.lan>, : Alexander Sanda <alex@darkstar.ping.at> wrote: : >In article <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> : >Peter F. McDermott (pmcdermo@cs.utexas.edu) wrote: : > : >> Some companies just don't get it. Valdimir Vukicevic on the XFree86-3D list : >> requested information on Matrox's card (first message) and received the : >> second message as a reply. Unless Matrox changes their mind on release of : >> information, I suggest no one interested in running a free Unix system : >> buy their products. : > : >I can understand this behavior. Matrox has developed one of the most : >sophisticated graphics board for the PC. The Millenium seems to be the : >fastest card available today. They want their technology not to be : >stolen by competitors - I think, it's not so hard to understand. : : Is it that they don't want their technology stolen by competitor's or is it : that they don't want the competitors to learn which of their innovations : Matrox stole from them. : : There are easier ways to steal technology than to steal it by reverse : engineering. Just hire the people who developed it in the first place. Or take the hardware and examine how it works.