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From: alee@portia.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Trident drivers for Windows 3.0
Summary: Should be OK to redistribute the drivers (when they're out)
Keywords: latest scoop
Message-ID: <1990Jul6.090817.946@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Jul 90 09:08:17 GMT
References: <1266@peyote.cactus.org>
Organization: Stanford University, Department of Physics
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In article <1266@peyote.cactus.org> woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald S. Woan) writes:
>Here's the latest scoop regarding Trident drivers!
[a few lines deleted]
>They will be sending the out Friday to their OEM manufacturers (i.e.
>Logos, Maxxon, etc...). You can also get them directly from Trident
>for a $40 software upgrade fee (pretty steep, but I was told they
>include other drivers, as well). Anyway, Trident's phone number is
>(408)738-3194, if I copied it from work correctly. All in all, I think 
>this is a shameful distribution policy considering ATI, Video 7, and
>Paradise have uploaded theirs to Compuserve and made theirs available
>for free.

I just called them today (the phone number is right).  The drivers will
be out next week, and the reason they're charging $40 is so that they
DON'T want to deal directly with users.  HOWEVER, when I asked about
redistributing the drivers, the guy said that what I did with them was
my own business, and IT WOULD BE OK TO GIVE THEM AWAY.  So if anyone
gets drivers from one of the OEMs, please see if you can give a copy to
an anonymous FTP site.  My board is manufactured by Zoltrix, and when
I called them up, they said they've stopped making VGA boards.

	Andrew Lee (alee@fizzle.stanford.edu)