In article <3453432.YB4Cded7dP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Full OpenGL will only be available when installing an ICD (like the one
> > from nVidia), but then Aeroglass will no longer run
> >
> > According to opengl.org there is absolutely no technical reason to do it
> > that way, only political ones. They think that MS will try to hinder OpenGL
> > by forcing DirectX and hampering OpenGL at the same time
>
>
> Thanks for the information, Peter. This gives more fuel to this argument. I
> notice that the contraction came from [H]omer's blog. See comment in:
The Khronos Group says Peter is wrong:
<http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3760>
"In fact, Khronos says that by the time Windows Vista ships, Aeroglass
performance on OpenGL will be superior to that of Direct3D".
Of course, maybe Peter knows more about OpenGL than the Khronos Group
does. After all, the Khronos group is merely the group that controls
the OpenGL specification:
31st July, 2006 - SIGGRAPH, Boston, Massachusetts - The Khronos?
Group is pleased to announce that the OpenGL® ARB (Architecture
Review Board), the governing body for OpenGL, has voted to transfer
control of the OpenGL API standard to the Khronos Group. The Khronos
Group has voted to establish an OpenGL Working Group that will
control and evolve this vital standard for cross-platform 3D
graphics with significantly enhanced participation as ARB companies
join over one hundred Khronos members involved in creating open
standards for dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms. The full
transfer of the OpenGL specification to Khronos is expected to be
completed in the third quarter of 2006 with full support for the
OpenGL API and its evolution to continue uninterrupted during this
transition with full updates on both http://www.opengl.org and
http://www.khronos.org.
Checking who is a member of the Khronos Group, I only see names like
NVidia, ATI, SGI, Sun, Apple, Google, Intel, Xi, XCE, Softimage, and
about 90 others in the graphics and media areas. I don't see Peter
there, though, so I guess Khronos can't know too much about how OpenGL
is going to work on Vista--after all, their members are merely the
people who are implementing the code.
--
--Tim Smith
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