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- From: harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp)
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- Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
- Keywords: Diamond, free-software
- Message-ID: <a1xny5p.harp@netcom.com>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 20:34:36 GMT
- References: <1992Sep12.035549.4743@zeos.com> <1992Sep13.142036.26842@nuchat.sccsi.com> <badger.716406960@phylo> <1992Sep13.185117.12224@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
-
- > 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?
-
- Yeah, but what video card company (or SCSI card company, or sound card
- company, or ...) packages technical docs with their product? None
- that I've seen...
-
- When I bought my Stealth VRAM (which is for sale, BTW ;) ) there was
- no reason for me to think it wouldn't be supported by more than a half
- a dozen (or so) apps. I had no idea Diamond would be so paranoid
- about their products. The board was very well rated by BYTE (the
- fastest S3 board, I believe) and that all I had to go on. Their
- Speedstar Plus was also held in high regard.
-
- Since I was buying a whole system at the time, I didn't have a chance
- to wait and see how things turned out. There was no indication at the
- time that I needed to anyway.
-
- On my most recent contract I was programming for an Orchid ProDesigner
- IIs. Orchid was thrilled to death to send me docs. That's why the
- board I bought to replace my Stealth is a ProDesigner IIs. A good
- card with good support.
- --
- -----------------Greg-Harp----------------harp@netcom.com------------------
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