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From: victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vic Menayang)
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: XFree86 Matrox Millenium News
Date: 3 Sep 1996 23:04:25 -0500
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
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Andrew Vanderstock  <vanderaj@mail2.svhm.org.au> wrote:
:
:
:Matrox will be giving us the needed documentation and the ability
:to publish the source code freely, so we will be joining the
:XFree86 project.

The sad thing is many won't see this message and the image of Matrox
being hostile to the free unix community get stuck in their mind.
Oh well, probably a good warning for interface manufacturers to handle
the issue cautiously.