OpenSource development continues as long as all development proceeds in a de-centralized effort; to prevent interference from patent holders and the immoral WTO. Patents are a waste of time and resources. If it takes patents to protect someone’s research then we have more problems with honoring and respecting eachother’s research greater than any other worldly problem. Perhaps SGI has a plan?[br]

I see SGI selling or donating its patents to 3DLabs, but never SGI to Microsoft. Disgusting and most immoral idea it was to have anything to do with Microsoft. Now that the steal industry has moved to the communists, the oil industry has moved to the Arabs, the paper industry a monopoly, the electronics manufacuring moved to the communists; what more does the United States of America to have other than shitty software and corporate resources.[br]

[b]In the news, that motherfucker, Senator Ted Kennedy, is trying to postpone my taxcut. USA is going down because the .gov thinks it is of higher priority than the .com and .edu. Imagine if we all could keep the money we earned. SGI would have spare money, I would have more money to buy software and toaster ovens, and everything would be less a monopoly, more affordable, and everyone would be happier. Instead, we got fat fucks like Ted Kennedy, taking respects from John F. Kennedy’s work.[/b][br]

Yes, I’m having a bad day.

If MS basically lock-out all current hardware concepts, etc, then they’ll force a graphics revolution that’s based on new technology, new hardware, etc, and they’ll be left _totally_ in the dark on it.

Then again, I don’t think MS will pull off anything that doesn’t get them simply laughed at by the rest of the world.

Gary (-;

And again, judges/lawyers conclude that M$ is not a monopolistic threat to the whole IT-field and thus don’t plead for breaking M$ up. This attitude is so narrow-minded… or – more likely – plain stupid… maybe the are even corrupt. I would not be surprised at all, if the latter were the case.

Of course this is just a “nice” example of a M$-path trying to take the control away from the user. If this kind of development continues and people don’t get really educated about those issues we’ll all end up with having no choice at all in the end.

I think a little hope regarding this topic is OpenGL 2.0 The new design of version 2.0, could mean freeing OpenGL 2.0 from any potential thread from M$. But this is just a hopefull guess. I wonder why B. Paul did not mention this. Could I be utterly mistaken with my assumption?

I’d like to hear/read your thoughts/comments on this. This really got my head ticking. I love computer-graphics in their whole magnitude. It would be terrible if this is going to be controlled by M$.

Just my two cents (Euro, that is :)

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