From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jun 4 07:40:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA16160 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-gw.pacbell.net (mail-gw.pacbell.net [206.13.28.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA16104 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackv@earthling.net) Received: from eliot.pacbell.net (ppp-206-170-1-117.snfc21.pacbell.net [206.170.1.117]) by mail-gw.pacbell.net (8.8.8/8.7.1+antispam) with SMTP id HAA00131; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jack Velte" To: "Kurt Olsen" , Subject: Re: Voodoo graphics Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:27:10 -0700 Message-ID: <01bd8fc4$dc24c080$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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