What this article says to me is that MS will support OpenGL as long as it takes them
to marginalize it with Fahrenheit. Once they get people using that, they could try to
slip OpenGL out from under it and hope that no one would be the wiser. This article
looks like classic marketing-speak too; lots of probably's, maybe's and sometimes's.
Also notice that nowhere does it state that OpenGL will remain part of Fahrenheit.
And how can you take any pronouncements on MS support for OpenGL from an MS employee
who's job title includes "DirectX Evangelism" without a huge grain of salt? (Can you
say "confict of interest"? I knew you could.)
--
Brett Grimes
This is my *opinion*. Feel free to disagree with it.
At 01:40 PM 4/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Thank you and I too apologize for further spreading an erroneous article
>and for any concerns this may have raised.
>
>rgds
>JR
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Discussion list for Java 3D API
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Philip Taylor
>Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 1:11 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] MS dumps OpenGL?
>
>
>I will speak up here, since that "article" purportedly quotes my email; I
>wont call it journalism.
>
>MS replied in a very public way about this last December, see our official
>response at http://www.opengl.org/News/Archives99/Dec99.html under the
>headline "The Final Word from Microsoft: OpenGL will be supported in Window
>2000". Note the OpenGL crew were kind enough to publish my apology over any
>worry this "article" caused as a lead-in to this FAQ which makes our support
>of OGL on Windows 2000 clear.
>
>Sorry for any alarm this caused on this list at this late date, but this is
>a non-issue.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Engberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 6:28 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] MS dumps OpenGL?
>
>
>I second that. The sooner the better please Sun.
>
>Where did I put that copy of Linux?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Discussion list for Java 3D API
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Roberts
>Sent: 10 April 2000 13:08
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [JAVA3D] MS dumps OpenGL?
>
>
>Hi,
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/991129-000007.html
>
>Would anyone at sun care to comment on this in relation to DirectX support
>in the J3D releases?
>
>rgds
>JR
>
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