kelsey hudson wrote:
While this may be true, nVidia has said repeatedly that they don't
*want* to be closed. nVidia's big mistake was licensing stuff from SGI.
SGI is part-owned by Micro$oft, and Micro$oft has laid the kybosh down
on nVidia opening up anything that has SGI IP in it. Big surprise.
Ah, what a tangled web we weave ...
So, for this one, we can (again) blame Micro$oft.
Hogwash.
If nVidia wanted to, they could dedicate the resources to rewrite the IP.
Alternatively, they could dedicate the resources to create a set of
shims to allow direct calls to the 3D engine that would not violate
their IP license. The OpenGL API would be just fine.
They *choose* not to do either.
"Intentions" don't count; results do.
Intel is open. nVidia is not. ATI is not.
-a
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