excuse me, but yes I will feel free to disagree with your opinion here.
First, this is old news; like almost 6 months old. By Internet-Time, thats
an eon. Long discussed on the OGL mailing list. And long since cleaned up.
Search the OGL mailing list archives. Plus I should note that theRegister is
not noted as an icon of journalistic excellence or fairness. They took a set
of leaks about the lack of drivers in-the-box and created this huge boat of
conclusions by reading things into the mail that were not there. Just plain
wrong.
Second regardless of my job title; Microsoft the company made an official
reply to make sure partner companies knew exactly what the situation was re
our support of OGL in W2K. Period.
Third, the OpenGL crew was kind enough to print my apology email. I made
that statement since it was my email that was bandied about the net and
created a problem situation - I feel if I make a mess I need to clean it up.
I could have left it at just posting the FAQ, but I thought the OGL
community deserved an explanation. Same with my post to this list.
Fourth, over time I have made helpful posts here where my expertise could be
valuable. I have even made an open offer to Sun to help with any D3D issues
for J3D. Search the archives. Its not clear to me that just because of my
email addr or job title that if I provide valuable information it should be
dis-believed a priori.
Fifth, Fahrenheit isnt going to replace OGL. Fahrenheit Scene Graph was
meant to replace Performer. Part of the original plan was FSG would be
hosted on top of both OGL and D3D, much like J3D. True the Fahrenheit plan
has changed, but paranoia about us "slipping OGL out" on W2K is just that -
paranoia. Just cool down people. There is no issue here.
And as we are getting horribly off-topic, I apologize for that and for
taking up bandwidth. I did feel this ad hominem needed a reply though.
...now back to your originally scheduled programming...
-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Grimes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 11:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] MS dumps OpenGL?
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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