> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 26 11:24:14 2000
> So, what does this:
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>http://www.quicken.com/investments/news/story/pr/?story=/news/stories/pr/20000126/sfw052.htm&symbol=SGI
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> ...mean for the future of Mesa?
I imagine (but do not know) that you still need to buy the license in
order to get the conformance tests and use the OpenGL trademark.
Which means that (for now) this is just another OpenGL-compatible open
source library. There's a lot more work *freely available* right now
for hardware accelerating Mesa. I'll be a lot more excited when I see
hardware vendors open sourcing their OpenGL implementations.
In addition, I believe many Windows 98/NT ICD maintainers have an
additional Microsoft license in their source code, so it will probably
require a lot of legal and editing work before they can put out source
for their OpenGL driver. For example, I don't think S3 can
turn around today and open source their Windows driver.
This is very exciting, and I think it helps improve the strength of
the OpenGL API on Linux and in general, but this is not nearly as
useful or as interesting as people probably think.
-Brad
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Brad Grantham, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://alt.net/~grantham
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