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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.185117.12224@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Keywords: Diamond, free-software
- Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <1992Sep12.035549.4743@zeos.com> <1992Sep13.142036.26842@nuchat.sccsi.com> <badger.716406960@phylo>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 18:51:17 GMT
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- In article <badger.716406960@phylo> badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:
- >steve@nuchat.sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia) writes:
- >
- >>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
- >>
- >>The solution, for those of us who care about such things, is to
- >>not buy undocumented hardware. Vote with your wallet.
- >
- >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
-
- I wish *I* had the money to "impulse buy" hardware like that! Never
- buy a piece of hardware that doesn't come with technical manuals (unless you
- have previously acquired technical manuals, in which case it's OK if they
- aren't packaged together).
-
- If they aren't willing to open the box to check for documentation,
- what makes you think they're going to take an opened box back when the
- board isn't documented or is defective?
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
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- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
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