-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Helge Hafting wrote: > Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: >> >> However OpenGL 3 will not work out of the box on a new Linus >> installation. It will not work on a PC that came pre-installed with Linux. >> >> Neither Debian nor Dell will openly break US patent law (no will any >> other distribution/computer vendor). >> >> In userfriendlyness there's a huge difference between: >> - -OpenGL 3 just works (distribution's hardware autodetection installed >> free DRI drivers supporting OpenGL 3, PC came with them preinstalled) >> - -User has to search the web to find some forum or website telling him to >> download and install a library hosted in switzerland to get OpenGL 3 >> working (and that this is unlawful depending on where the user lives). > > You forget: > - OpenGL just works,but report to apps that texture compression > is not supported. Apps fall back on uncompressed textures, wasting > memory instead.
The problem is that if S3TC is required, then apps can give OpenGL a texture that is already compressed. If there is no compression or decompression code / logic due to patent issues, the whole thing falls apart. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHM2ihX1gOwKyEAw8RAh43AKCGtn+ACqHjHEGSjXVCn+Y/L+xbrgCgnv3b ds517m9K0qwosP/0xPVVM/w= =YElt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
