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From: vanevery@blarg.net (Brandon J. Van Every)
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Subject: Re: Why not buy Matrox Millennium
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Date: 14 Aug 1996 08:59:47 GMT
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Jerzy A Mlotkiewicz (jurek@dode.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Surely the aim of the Xfree project is to provide good software without
: having to charge the grossly over-inflated pricings that come with
: buying software from a company whose sole aim is to make a profit..
: ( Microsoft springs to mind on that note, with last yr's release of a
: heavily bugged Win 95 )
I beg to differ with your reasoning. Certainly, the balance of
Microsoft's efforts are geared towards "making a profit." I won't try
to argue against you as a matter of degree. But also, Microsoft is
providing services that a lot of people want. As an
infrastructure for supporting many 3d graphics cards, Microsoft is
a far superior resource to XFree86.
Also, even though I don't like the price structure of XAccel's or
Metrolink's X servers, they are still a better resource for doing
OpenGL than is XFree86. If your goal is to have a UNIX-lookalike
workstation on Intel hardware, then the services that XAccel and
Metrolink provide seem a lot more reasonable.
No company is in business solely to make profit. They have to provide
services that people want. Otherwise, no profit.
: If someone has to buy an X server rather than get it for free or some
: time spend downloading it, it would be better to buy it from Sun
: Microsystems... Solaris for example, will be fixed immediately should
: there be a bug found by a user.. fixes have been known to be out VERY
: quickly..
Arguing that people should buy Solaris rather than Microsoft, makes no
sense from a pure $$$$ standpoint. It would seem that you either have
a "religious" bias against Microsoft, or you have some assumptions
about what the OS is going to get used for. Solaris is better at some
things and carries a price tag for that.
: Apart from that.. who needs to pay for an X server anyway? Xfree is
: very capable. I use it almost every day on a pc running Linux with only
: a 1 mb cirrus logic 5440M card - no flicker problems at all.
It is not 3d graphics capable.
Cheers,
--
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