From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: Why not include patches for Diamond Stealth in kernel? Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 17:51:58 GMT
In article <1993Feb8.170333.28716@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
>>perhaps before they heard about the problems with XFree86. I think to
>>include the patches in the Linux or 386bsd kernel's or as part of the
>>official configuration options would serve to encourage the ill-conceived
>>proprietary behavior of Diamond and reduce the incentive of people to
>>protest to Diamond and its dealers.
>
>What makes you think that the general computing public has any interest
>at all in protesting Diamond, et. al.? In the world of DOS/Windows, the
>Stealth is a great card. Don't go slapping your reprehensible politically
>correct computing attitude on me.
As I understand it, this is not a simple boycott issue. There is a
real concern about being sued by Diamond. Apparently Diamond considers the
programming details of their card proprietary, and anyone who writes a driver
and then makes the source code publicly available has left themselves exposed
as they say. Until Diamond's attitude changes it simply would not be prudent
to include support for Diamond in the kernel or in Xfree.
-Eric
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