From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) Subject: Re: Why not include patches for Diamond Stealth in kernel? Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 14:13:21 GMT
eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
>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
>--
Ditto. My point may have drifted from this before, but this is the bottom
line.