From: Ed Carp (erc@unislc.uucp)
Date: 02/11/93


From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Linux or 386BSD?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 07:34:41 GMT

Dan R. Greening (dgreen@sti.com) wrote:

: That seems more critical: the anti-Diamond attitude is getting in the way
: of promoting a beautiful alternative to MS Windows.

I could be mistaken, but I believe that the "anti-Diamond" attitude you
seem to be seeing is the result of Diamond's refusing to supply technical
details of their card that the X folks need to support X. Well, not outright
refusal, but they want folks to sign non-disclosure agreements and such.
That approach works well in competitive software markets, but not for a free
OS.

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