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From: jiho@smt...
Subject: Re: [9fans] Are nvidia-cards working with plan9?
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:22:44 GMT

In article <39DB3CE8.13472.13A85CF@localhost>,
	nigel@9fs.org (Nigel Roles) writes:

> You may well be right Russ. However, I thought that this
> email demonstrated 'the right stuff'. Not
> 
> "changing my video card is too much trouble to run Plan 9",
> 
> but
> 
> "I'll etch my own silicon if needs be"

Well, there's no response to that level of fanaticism.

But there really is a serious problem with chip companies
claiming their register sets are somehow proprietary.

If the Wall Street crowd had their way, Microsoft would
declare their drop-down menus proprietary, so you'd have
to hire someone to operate your PCs for you.


--Jim Howard  <jiho@mai...>