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Patents May Cause Issues For OpenGL 3 In Mesa
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| While work on OpenGL 3.x support in Mesa has been very slow, many
| have been looking forward to the day when Gallium3D hardware
| drivers provide fast acceleration and a OpenGL 3 state tracker to
| provide this support to all Gallium3D users. Intel though has
| also been wanting to bring some OpenGL 3 support to the classic
| Mesa stack. However, at XDC2009, Intel's Ian Romanick has
| expressed some issues with patents that could inhibit the support.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzU3Nw
Is It So Crazy For A Patent Attorney To Think Patents Harm Innovation?
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| There are plenty of reasons why people might believe patents
| increase innovation -- but they're the same theories of the
| mercantilists in the 18th century, who believed that monopolies
| on other products spurred more development in those businesses.
| That theory was debunked and is considered laughable by pretty
| much any economist today. And yet, when it comes to patents, why
| do people automatically reject what economists realized two
| hundred years ago? Monopolies may temporarily benefit the
| monopolist, but at the expense of society as a whole.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090930/0158056366.shtml
Recent:
Mesa Slowly Picking Up OpenGL 3 Support
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| Intel's Ian Romanick has announced on the Mesa3D development list that he has
| made available an arb_sync branch of Mesa. As implied by its name, this
| branch implements support for the GL_ARB_sync extension, which just
| officially debuted with OpenGL 3.2.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzQ5Ng
WebGL support makes first appearance in latest Firefox 3.7 nightly builds
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| Google Chrome and other WebKit-based browsers aren't the
| only ones getting improved 3D graphics handling
| capabilities. As of September 18th, Firefox trunk builds
| include support for WebGL.
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http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/09/20/webgl-support-makes-first-appearance-in-latest-firefox-3-7-night/
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