Bernd Kreimeier wrote:
> [about as much off topic as "JMF for Linux"]
>
> With respect to "Java3D for Linux": Arcana Ltd.,
> the company that till last week provided a very
> popular Java OpenGL API and implementations for
> JNI, RNI and Netscape's JRI on Linux, Windows,
> Mac, and other platforms, has been forced to close
> shop.
>
This doesn't seem off-topic to me at all. In general, Java3D seems like a very
microsoftian initiative on the part of sun - an attempt to generate revenue by
crippling genuinely open standards like OpenGL and step on anybody else who
dares to provide extensions to Java. My company bought into Magician as a
migration path away from AWT and Swing; our current plan is to ultimately use
GNOME for 2D and OpenGL for 3D. Fortunately, we'd already purchased Magician;
unfortunately, it's probably impossible to use it in deliverable products now
since we're a small company, too and can't afford a decent price for the source
code. I think Linus is proved right in his skepticism about the possibility of
an "open" platform owned by a single manuafacturer.
Sun doesn't just want to beat microsoft in the marketplace - sun wants to be
microsoft. It's really too bad, since SUN (Stanford University Network)
wouldn't exist without free (in the FSF sense) software.
Peter Johnson
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