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From: vanevery@blarg.net (Brandon J. Van Every)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.api.misc,comp.graphics.algorithms,comp.windows.x.i386unix,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Freeware community needs 3d library NOW
Followup-To: comp.graphics.api.misc,comp.graphics.algorithms,comp.windows.x.i386unix,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Date: 26 Jun 1996 17:16:17 GMT
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Ian Griffiths (igriffit@dev.madge.com) wrote:
: Tim Smith wrote:
: > I'd be surprised if the Direct3d drivers specifically have to
: > run in a Windows environment.
: I wonder just how feasible it would be though.
Even if it was feasible for a commercial vendor like Sun to implement,
I really don't think it's feasible in the freeware universe. There
would simply be too much design iteration, testing, conformance, etc.
Nobody can put full-time resources into that job, and the
communications overhead of reporting results back and forth to widely
distributed parties working on different schedules would slow the
effort to a snail's pace. It would simply never get done. Finally,
at the end of the day only hackers would buy into the credibility of
the solution. Everyone else would be worried that "something's gonna
break." And they'd be justified in their worries.
In general, it is not feasible to try to beat Microsoft by playing the
game according to their rules. Whatever you may think of Microsoft,
they are a multi-billion dollar company that LEADS the development of
Microsoft Windows technology. We'd be fools to try to do one better
on them.
I will point at Wine as a case in point. It has not kept pace, it never
will, and really, it never could have.
Cheers,
--
Brandon J. Van Every | Check out Free3d, my 100% efficient, 100% portable
| 3d lib, at <http://www.blarg.net/~vanevery>.
3d Computer Graphics |
C++ UNIX X11 WinNT | E-mail: vanevery@blarg.net