* Erik Hofman -- Friday 25 January 2002 15:50: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > Because SGI recently sold a couple of 3D-graphics patents to Microsoft and > > Microsoft could be interested not to license these to companies that > > support anything else than DirectX. So Nvidia could drop OpenGL support for > > their cards in the next years and you can throw your card into the bucket ... > > given that you want to upgrade your Linux kernel some day. > > Neh, most of the hardware designers of Nvidia come from SGI ... > No worry about that.
... which doesn't buy them anything, if MS owns important patents and wants to push DirectX and hurt other OSes. And don't tell me that they wouldn't! Neiter Nvidia nor SGI is in control then, and certainly not the "owner" of a Nvidia card. I am not paranoid and I don't think that my scenario will become reality soon, if at all. I just wanted to explain why it =does= make sense to prefer open solutions over closed ones. As long as you don't get the specs you are not really owner of your graphics cards. You depend on the good will of your 'master'. Nvidia decides what you can do with the product that you paid for. It's like if your only rented it. No problem for Windows users, of course. They are used to it and don't deserve better. But there's a better world out there. :-> m. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
