Hi Robert,
It's a tool for a job, making it into a war is useless.
I'm not trying to make war. I'm try to give perspective on what seems
to be happening in the OSG community and what that might mean more
widely.
But you have to realize that even you aren't 100% objective, no one is.
Your views are skewed by your background just as much as anyone else's.
IMHO the situation with Windows users at large is less bleak than what
you make out, the recent situation with Vista coming in far below
expectations helped on that front. Non-tech people are starting to see
that there are alternatives, and that (other than MacOS) a choice of
hardware doesn't lock you onto a single OS.
But that's a matter of opinion and we don't have any cold facts (other
than perhaps the actual market share of Windows vs other OSes, but that
won't be reflected by web server stats). We can just hope that people
making products are choosing their APIs based on merit instead of based
on a misguided idea of which API will sell more products... In the end I
don't think a user cares whether DirectX or OpenGL is under the hood,
the results are what counts, but the people managing projects are
choosing one or the other sometimes for the wrong reasons I agree.
It is indeed good news, it's one of key points of me posting the
stats. To highlight that fact that for our community at least things
aren't as MS centric as they were previously.
And perhaps that's a trend that's larger than our community only?
(I hope so)
Having a viable choice is a good thing, having competitors to IE and
even Windows starting to get on to a more level footing will mean that
you'll have the choice of which platforms suits you best, and MS will
be forced to start competing with better products rather than abusing
it's monopoly position (like it's done so far with OpenGL/D3D).
Yes, which is why I don't agree with those who say D3D should die.
J-S
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