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- From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger)
- Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
- References: <1992Sep10.130359.24767@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Sep11.124831.10108@crd.ge.com> <1992Sep12.035549.4743@zeos.com> <1992Sep13.142036.26842@nuchat.sccsi.com>
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- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:56:00 GMT
- Keywords: Diamond, free-software
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- steve@nuchat.sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia) writes:
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- >In <1992Sep12.035549.4743@zeos.com> kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes:
- >>The solution for the support of X/Windows in the Freeware arena or
- >>any other arena would be to design a VESA based driver for these
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- >The solution, for those of us who care about such things, is to
- >not buy undocumented hardware. Vote with your wallet.
- >--
- >Steve Nuchia South Coast Computing Services, Inc. (713) 661-3301
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- Yes, but most people (at the time of purchase) don't know if the hardware
- is going to be documented or not, which makes this sort of voting impossible
-
- Jonathan Badger (an owner of a Dimond Stealth card for six months)
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