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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!jstern From: jstern@primenet.com (Josh Stern) 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,misc.consumers Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 8 Aug 1996 08:33:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4ud1bd$rvc@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <32093E50.39EB@aloha.net> <4ubhcp$859@Venus.mcs.com> <4ucf1n$1afo@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> X-Posted-By: jstern@206.165.5.105 (jstern) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:20033 comp.os.linux.development.system:29408 comp.os.linux.x:37581 comp.os.linux.hardware:46943 comp.os.linux.setup:67824 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:998 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4539 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4301 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:25166 misc.consumers:93936 Gavan Moran <gavinm@vsprsun_1.ee.qub.ac.uk> wrote: > Whats the problem? Since the matrox cards won't work under LINUX without >the addition of a 3rd party piece of software (which you have to pay for) then >surely its just a case of the consumer deciding whether they want to go that >route. > > Most people will probably just stick to buying a card they know they can get >a 'free' driver for and Matrox will have shot themselves in the foot. Yes to all that, but let's make sure that as many people as possible who are running Linux and perhaps thinking about running Linux in the future know about the extra complications of purchasing a Matrox card. In that case, Matrox's foot might actually start to hurt. - Josh -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- jstern jstern@primenet.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------