Timothy Miller wrote:
I saw this post about SGI wanting to sell OpenGL:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/21/2330215
At the moment, the OHF has nothing (in part because it hasn't been
formed yet), but that doesn't mean we can't get vocal about this and
see if we can't get a consortium of Free Software groups to get
together and see if they can't together swing enough money. X.org,
GNOME, KDE, Mesa, OSDN, EFF, FSF... you name it. OpenGL should just
get bought by the community, just like Blender.
IIUC, the OpenGL patents are owned by SGI *and* 3DLabs. But, they (at
least the software part of them) have all been assigned to some sort of
open license. So, what would be sold? Would they be selling the rights
to use the patents for non-open software?
--
JRT
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