I think that by the time they tried to do something of that nature it would be time for anybody with a GeForce2 to be upgrading the video card anyway. TTYL J
On Friday 25 January 2002 10:32 am, you wrote: > * 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 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
