Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:27:10 -0700 From: "Jack Velte" <jackv@earthling.net> To: "Kurt Olsen" <kurto@bootp.sls.usu.edu>, <freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Voodoo graphics Message-ID: <01bd8fc4$dc24c080$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net>
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standard negotiation framework for getting porting help. CONTACT >Most of the time I just look for some way to make contact. Either by >phone, email, whatever. For 3Dfx I was reading their news site and saw >that there was a particular person who seemed to be involved with >Glide. So I sent him an email and he put me in contact with the proper >individuals to arrange licensing. 3Dfx seems to want to have Glide >ported, they just don't have the manpower to support every platform. (it's sort of odd that more then one person contacted them with no internal communication on their part.) >In all likelyhood there will be no source release and I'll be signing >NDAs, etc. But if that's what it takes, then that's what it takes. how do you code that with no source release? >When I got the Tseng databooks I just called them and they took my >name and address and sent it out. Similar when I contacted Atari (RIP) >a while ago about one of their platforms. > >I think that the big thing is not to be too pushy, I realize that marines think the answer is more force. >often I'm asking for favors which don't have a lot of return potential. i disagree with this. FreeBSD has lots and lots of return potential, especially amoung the highend buyers. * there should be a FreeBSD fact sheet, one printed page, that runs over why FreeBSD is a good thing. html page with links.* >So I try to treat the company like I would anybody who is doing me a >favor. yes, that's the way free software works. >It's also important that you don't make a claim to being something yup. this sounds like a good fact sheet to me. could you be the maintainer, or starter, of the licensing faq, please? just reedit this. >that you are not, ie. I never said I was CEO of FreeBSD Inc. or anything >like that. Doing so could cause real problems for FreeBSD and tarnish >our image. >Have a good day. -jack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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