> I hope you are correct (we use GLScene); I guess the question remains, how
> concerned would really MS be? Are they really likely to be shut out? How
> *could* they be shut out? Would a hardware manufacturer care about OpenGL
> more than DirectX? I have no idea.
SGI would be the only one I can think of with balls for that. However, I doubt
any of the manufacturers want the function level that they are allowed to provide
be set by MS. The opengl extension mechanism allows developers to fast-track
use of new whizzies in the hardware which is where their competitive advantage
lies.
I also have huge investment in Glscene and went Opengl route because of the
pressure to port to Linux.
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