Hi Xiaodong Wu et. al,
2008/4/3 Wu Xiaodong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > How could the community do when the next Microsoft Technologies, such as > DirectX changes like OS changes from Win95 to WinXp. The email about adopting Microsoft Technologies across the board was a April 1st spoof, written to be almost plausible but also ridiculous at the same time, and once you realise it's a joke you know you've been had. Such pranks are a tradition on April 1st every year in at least the UK and US. I'm not sure how long the tradition has run for or where it started, but it's been an ever annual amusement all my life. Newspapers, television, friends, family, communities all get in on the act to try to pull best pranks. In this case prankster wasn't me, but an impersonator who went to the length of register a [EMAIL PROTECTED] email account and then subscribing this account with osg-users, and then posted his/her announcement at plausible timing. As April 1st pranks go it was a pretty good one because it would be easy to just read it at face value before it sinks in that its April 1st and just a prank. So... the OpenSceneGraph hasn't really embraced MS technologies, its remains firmly fixed the world of open standards and any platform specifics will stay minimal and encapsulated as far as possible to prevent users being tied to any particular platform. This means that the OpenSceneGraph should still compile on Windows95 through to Vista, from now unsupported operating systems like IRIX to latest versions of Linux about to come out. Genuine standards provide continuity and portability which is which make it great for software that lives and useful life for a long time. Those who've been around the OpenSceneGraph community know that I'm a pretty outspoken supporter of open standards and portability. They'll also know that I don't personally go anywhere near Windows boxes, and certainly don't have much patience with Microsoft only technologies or its questionable business its practices. The prank was good because it reversed this all on its head, with a nod and wink to the current OOXML fiasco at ISO. So... the question is... who is the prankster???? Robert.
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