On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 09:03:47AM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote: > On 7/22/06, luc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Sure but, I've many questions : > >Does OpenGL belong entirely to SGI ? > >And what SGI can sale of OpenGL since 2002 ? > >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/16/sgi_transfers_3d_graphics_patents/ > > > >What about the ARB consortium ? > >What about the very likely fusion between OpenGL and Khronos ? > > I'm afraid I don't know any of that. I have focused on the hardware > aspects of it and other stuff for OGD1, which has probably isolated > me. This is why it's good to have a mailing list. :) > > All I want is for OpenGL to become public domain or controlled by a > public group so that OpenGL certifications can be had for little or no > fee, etc. I want OpenGL to be available to everyone.
OpenGL *is* a public spec... there's no point to buy or sell anything. Conformity specifications mean squat, especially since as I imagine (correct me if I'm wrong), you would have to get a certification for each driver version on each possible OS/kernel configuration to guarantee that the "output" of a graphics card is conformant, since rendering bugs could creep everywhere from the actual hardware to the driver, the libGL user-space library, or whatever. -- John Tsiombikas (Nuclear / Mindlapse) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nuclear.demoscene.gr/
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