Comments on: OpenGL to be sold? http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/07/19/opengl-to-be-sold/ GStreamer and Collabora news and more Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:07:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MacSlow http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/07/19/opengl-to-be-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-513 MacSlow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/07/19/opengl-to-be-sold/#comment-513 Hm... I really hope there's some financially potent someone/organization that can grab the OpenGL IP (and make it really open) before MS comes along and kills OpenGL. I've a very bad feeling about this. The Khronos group might be a good place for the new "home" of OpenGL. Hm… I really hope there’s some financially potent someone/organization that can grab the OpenGL IP (and make it really open) before MS comes along and kills OpenGL. I’ve a very bad feeling about this. The Khronos group might be a good place for the new “home” of OpenGL.

]]> By: Chris Webber http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/07/19/opengl-to-be-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-514 Chris Webber Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/07/19/opengl-to-be-sold/#comment-514 According to Wikipedia:<p/>The OpenGL specification is currently overseen by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB), which was formed in 1992. The ARB consists of a set of companies with a vested interest in creating a consistent and widely available API. Voting members of the ARB as of April 2006 include 3D hardware manufacturers SGI, 3Dlabs, ATI Technologies, NVIDIA and Intel, and computer manufacturers IBM, Apple Computer, Dell, and Sun Microsystems.<p/> Microsoft, one of the founding members, left in March 2003. Aside from these corporations, each year many other companies are invited to be part of the OpenGL ARB for one-year terms. With so many companies involved with such a diverse set of interests, OpenGL has become very much a general-purpose API with a wide range of capabilities.<p/>According to current plans, control of OpenGL will pass to the Khronos Group by the end of 2006. This is being done in order to improve the marketing of OpenGL, and to remove barriers between the development of OpenGL and OpenGL ES.<p/>-----<p/>So it looks like for now there's already plenty of other forces to keep it going. According to Wikipedia:

The OpenGL specification is currently overseen by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB), which was formed in 1992. The ARB consists of a set of companies with a vested interest in creating a consistent and widely available API. Voting members of the ARB as of April 2006 include 3D hardware manufacturers SGI, 3Dlabs, ATI Technologies, NVIDIA and Intel, and computer manufacturers IBM, Apple Computer, Dell, and Sun Microsystems.

Microsoft, one of the founding members, left in March 2003. Aside from these corporations, each year many other companies are invited to be part of the OpenGL ARB for one-year terms. With so many companies involved with such a diverse set of interests, OpenGL has become very much a general-purpose API with a wide range of capabilities.

According to current plans, control of OpenGL will pass to the Khronos Group by the end of 2006. This is being done in order to improve the marketing of OpenGL, and to remove barriers between the development of OpenGL and OpenGL ES.

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So it looks like for now there’s already plenty of other forces to keep it going.

]]> By: Alexander Boström http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/07/19/opengl-to-be-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-515 Alexander Boström Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/07/19/opengl-to-be-sold/#comment-515 <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/16/sgi_transfers_3d_graphics_patents/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/16/sgi_transfers_3d_graphics_patents/</a><p/>"Silicon Graphics Inc has transferred much of its 3D graphics patents portfolio to Microsoft."<p/>So it might already have happened...<br/> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/16/sgi_transfers_3d_graphics_patents/

“Silicon Graphics Inc has transferred much of its 3D graphics patents portfolio to Microsoft.”

So it might already have happened…

]]> By: Ken http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/07/19/opengl-to-be-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-516 Ken Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/07/19/opengl-to-be-sold/#comment-516 Remember that what most of us are using on Linux isn't actually OpenGL, but Mesa, which is an OpenGL-compatible library that can't actually call itself "OpenGL" for various hand-wavey reasons. Remember that what most of us are using on Linux isn’t actually OpenGL, but Mesa, which is an OpenGL-compatible library that can’t actually call itself “OpenGL” for various hand-wavey reasons.

]]> By: stolennomenclature http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/07/19/opengl-to-be-sold/comment-page-1/#comment-517 stolennomenclature Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/07/19/opengl-to-be-sold/#comment-517 Mesa may not infringe on the copyright covering the original OpenGL code itself, but it can still infringe on patents that cover particular techniques used within OpenGL. So this might not be enough to protect Mesa. Mesa may not infringe on the copyright covering the original OpenGL code itself, but it can still infringe on patents that cover particular techniques used within OpenGL. So this might not be enough to protect Mesa.

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