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From: alee@portia.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Trident drivers for Windows 3.0
Summary: Might not be OK to redistribute after all
Keywords: trident vga drivers windows3
Message-ID: <1990Jul14.081911.16886@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Jul 90 08:19:11 GMT
References: <231@uninet.vbo.dec.com>
Organization: AIR, Stanford University
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In article <231@uninet.vbo.dec.com> ops@ayov27.enet.dec.com (Joseph Early) writes:
>
>>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.
>>	Andrew Lee (alee@fizzle.stanford.edu)
>
>What about putting them to comp.binaries.ibm.pc. You think they would do 
>this themselves. Microsoft put up it's generic unsupported SVGA drivers.
>
>Joseph Early - Put my name in subject of mail. Support the short .sig campaign.
>...!unido!decum!ayov27.dnet!ops 		...!ukc!wessex!ayov27.enet!ops
>			 ops@ayov18.enet.dec.com
Well, I called them again to find out when the drivers would be out.  Now
it's some time next week.  I asked this person about the distribution
policy, and he only said that he wouldn't come after me if I gave away
copies of it.  It seems that what the first person I spoke to told me isn't
the official company policy.  If so, it means that we certainly can't
post the drivers or make them available for anonymous FTP.  The best thing
for most people to do is to contact the OEM who manufactured their board.
(Trident is giving free upgrades to those whose BOARDS were made by Trident.)
Unfortunately for me, the company that made my board, Zoltrix, doesn't
make video boards any more.

	Andrew Lee
	alee@fizzle.stanford.edu	alee@slacvm.bitnet