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Re: [News] OpenGL Gets DirectX/Microsoft's Knickers in a Twist


After takin' a swig o' grog, Peter Köhlmann belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> Hadron wrote:
>> Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>>> What we've got now are several vendor-specific systems (CUDA from
>>> NVidia, and Stream Computing SDK from AMD, for example).  You don't
>>> think having a portable, standard way to do GPGPU stuff is something we
>>> need!?
>> 
>> No. I dont. At this time we need a shove of the existing standards. And
>> b "we" I mean the Linux side. Gods knows its having enough difficulty
>> keeping up and getting SW vendors on their side.
>
> Translation: It is another threat to MS dominance, and so it has to be
> stopped somehow.
>
> Too bad that your "OSS culling committee" has no say in that, isn't
> it, "true linux advocate" and "kernel hacker" Hadron Quark?
> -- 
> The Day Microsoft makes something that does not suck is probably
> the day they start making vacuum cleaners.

It's a sad day for the LHC when Hadron gets spanked by Tim.

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