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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!news.jhu.edu!aplcenmp!netnews.jhuapl.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!ka.sub.net!ardbeg.islay.sub.org!ardbeg.islay.sub.org!pmh From: pmh@ardbeg.islay.sub.org (Patrick M. Hausen) 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 Date: 21 Apr 1996 14:35:20 +0200 Organization: Patrick M. Hausen - private site Lines: 46 Message-ID: <pmh.830089693@ardbeg.islay.sub.org> References: <4kfkb2$dgs@coyote.Artisoft.COM> <stephenkDpoDrJ.177@netcom.com> <3170348D.4496D9F1@lambert.org> <stephenkDq2BCK.B40@netcom.com> <3176AFE0.28146F7@lambert.org> <pmh.829934962@ardbeg.islay.sub.org> <31785FD3.214C1457@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14723 comp.os.linux.development.system:22009 comp.os.linux.x:29937 comp.os.linux.hardware:36940 comp.os.linux.setup:51562 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:768 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3413 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3262 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17884 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >Patrick M. Hausen wrote: >[ ... ] >] >The situation is not analogous. XFree86 is the car, not Matrox, >] >and Matrox is a different octane fuel. Commercial service >] >vehicles can run on that octane, but your XFree86 car can't. >] >] I completely agree with you, Terry. As this arguement goes on and on >] I can't resist to ask: >] >] If Matrox is such an unfriendly, braindamaged company - why the hell >] even care? I just didn't by their product, period. >I care because I care about free software. >As Stephan brow-beats more and more free software advocates into >"just not buying their product" (because they no longer care), >then it reduces the number of people available to leverage >a policy change. > [...] Again I agree with your statements, but _why_ convince Matrox to change their policy? In a free market for every product with every set of features there are at least half a dozen compareable products (in terms of price, performance, features) from other companies with a suitable policy. You can buy Elsa, Miro, #9, ATI, what the ... - don't buy Matrox. I mean, you want to invest your (and others') valuable time to help Matrox sell more boards (that would be the net effect of a policy change on their side). I don't care how many boards Matrox sells - they don't pay me for that. I buy the product that fits my needs, i.e. the components which I _know_ run reliably with my OS of choice (which happens to be FreeBSD at the moment). Paddy -- Patrick M. Hausen Gerwigstr. 11 76131 Karlsruhe pmh@islay.sub.org "Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate or Fortune, Luck, or one's neighbor" -- Ambrose Bierce