* Erik Hofman -- Friday 25 January 2002 15:50:
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
Because SGI recently sold a couple of 3D-graphics patents to Microsoft and
Microsoft could be interested not to license these to companies that
support anything else than DirectX. So Nvidia could drop OpenGL support for
Melchior FRANZ writes:
... which doesn't buy them anything, if MS owns important patents and
wants to push DirectX and hurt other OSes. And don't tell me that they
wouldn't! Neiter Nvidia nor SGI is in control then, and certainly not
the owner of a Nvidia card.
I am not paranoid and I
Open source software may also be tested, legally, also to
airworthiness standards. And, by the FAA too.
..which leaves closed source software behind as, _un-certifiable_.
That's true for various categories of avionics, which have coverage tests,
but not for inspection and training tools,
