Michael Pfeiffer wrote:
In this case Apple must be a completely stupid company: they put efforts
into a dead project to release a software for the trashcan.
No, they just have commercial sense. They were in a bidding for a rather
large NASA hardware contract for an application that currently uses
Java3D for rendering. NASA turned to them and said - you're out of the
running because you don't have Java3D support. Apple turned around and
purchased a license to J3D, got it running on panther, published as such
and that's why you now have J3D on Mac OSX today. It was profitable for
them to do so.
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Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/
Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/
Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/
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