On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:16:38PM +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > Having 'open' RTL is a enormously cool and awesome bonus, but it's just > that. To be entirely honest, if nVidia and ATi were to turn around > tomorrow and say, "From now on all of our interface specs will be freely > released to anyone who wants them, here they are," Traversal and the OGP > would be out of business.
This is something OGP needs to be careful about though. Is it a business plan, or is it a wedge to force the hand of proprietary vendors to become more open? Confusing ideology with business strategy can lead to disaster. So the event NVIDIA/ATI suddenly decide to become friendly to developers, while indisputably a positive change, should be viewed as a contingency and planned for in the context of the project plan. > I'm sure I don't speak for everyone here. But you must be careful that > you don't get too paranoid about the Slashdot trolls' huffing and > puffing, either. Remember that although they all seem to say, "Well the > closed source drivers work well enough for me, I'm not interested," or, > "What's this? It's not entirely GPL'd? Rubbish!" they aren't a > representative sample by any stretch of the imagination. There simply isn't a point in trying to please everyone. At least people with unreasonable opinions who post on Slashdot are wasting their time doing just that, as opposed to actively impeding the project in some way. -- Ryan Underwood, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
