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[News] Elbox responds to Picasso96 controversyANN.lu
Posted on 16-Nov-2000 13:41 GMT by Christian Kemp103 comments
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Elbox responds to attacks on its latest graphics card drivers. Read more below.
  1. The latest Elbox driver for the Voodoo3 chipset is a proprietary and independent software solution written by Elbox programmers, without any support or help on part of any outside team of programmers, developers or companies.
  2. All legal rights for the Voodoo3 driver are property of Elbox Computer company. Actually, P96 authors did not acquire rights for this software (although our driver provides added value to P96, no doubt). We are open to further negotiations.
  3. The Voodoo3 ver. 1.0 driver (available now for MEDIATOR PCI registered users) is 100% compatible with the P96 graphic system.
  4. Elbox does not distribute P96 software, which is available from other sources, e.g. from Amiga OS 3.5 CD-ROMs.
  5. P96 is shareware, paid by the users. Elbox provides expanded capacities for P96 and as for now does not want to be paid for it from P96 authors (the Voodoo3 driver is free for registered users of MEDIATOR PCI).
  6. Development of Elbox Voodoo3 drivers will be continued and updated and they will be made compatible with OTHER graphic systems, too.
  7. If the P96 authors team decide to try to make efforts to block MEDIATOR operation with future P96 graphic system releases (strange enough, as Elbox drivers indirectly helps P96 authors in their own business…), Elbox will provide a completely NEW, modern and expandable graphic system (soon…).
  8. Drivers for other graphic chipsets are under development now and will be provided by Elbox.
  9. Support for all the drivers written by Elbox team of programmers IS and will be provided by Elbox Computer.
  10. Every user of MEDIATOR, who wants to use any graphic card based around a chipset supported by Elbox, will be free to choose which graphic system to use… and then pay the appropriate shareware fee if this is P96.
FOR EVERY 'BAD NEWS' WE HAVE TEN GOOD NEWS.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
Elbox responds to Picasso96 controversy : Comment 101 of 103ANN.lu
Posted by .... on 21-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 100 (Moneyless):
http://www.vgr.com/mediator/pic96-press.txt
Elbox responds to Picasso96 controversy : Comment 102 of 103ANN.lu
Posted by Kay Are Ulvestad on 21-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 101 (....):
Hmm...well, I am glad to have the P96 authors official opinion on this whole matter as well. Seems to me they have a pretty sensible approach to it all. I really hope Elbox can drop their, in my opinion, pretty pointless pride and offer the P96 authors some sort of compensation. I still think that the P96 license doesn't hold up legally when it comes to this specific case. However, the point about the development kit combined with the P96 people's apparently more flexible attitude, makes me feel that Elbox are the ones who have acted as the "bad guys", and should compensate.
Kay
Elbox responds to Picasso96 controversy : Comment 103 of 103ANN.lu
Posted by Nian on 21-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT
Hrm, well I believe that if the P96 guys want to be paid by elbox
then they should be expected to upgrade P96 and add a large number
of new drivers, not just Voodoo3 and Virge cards. But as I assume
they aren't interested in doing a large amount of programming for
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