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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!udel!udel-eecis!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.bb.net!news.blarg.net!blarg.net!vanevery 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: 28 Jun 1996 18:46:45 GMT Organization: Blarg! Online Services 206/441-9109 Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4r19al$jfe@guysmiley.blarg.net> References: <4qlf04$7pj@guysmiley.blarg.net> <4qlkf5$77a@jik.israel.net> <4qp31j$3i6@bubba.NMSU.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: animal.blarg.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.graphics.api.misc:669 comp.graphics.algorithms:29120 comp.windows.x.i386unix:20393 gnu.misc.discuss:26793 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22400 comp.os.linux.development.apps:18189 Joe Pfeiffer (pfeiffer@nmsu.edu) wrote: : In article <4qm254$45v@shangri-la.io.com> danielsi@io.com (Daniel A. Supernaw-Issen) writes: : In article <4qlkf5$77a@jik.israel.net>, : Jonathan Kamens <jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com> wrote: : >I can't possibly be the only one who is sick and tired of hearing Mr. : >Van Every's proselytizing about 3D code for Linux. : > : I'd like to state emphatically that not everyone agrees with Mr : Kamens. I sure don't. I wish that I had the time to work on this : project. I agree with the perception of threat relating to : Microsofts entry into the 3d market. : Yes, but... a message on an important topic is appreciated. An : occasional message on the topic isn't bad. But at this point, I find : myself slipping into a knee-jerk reaction of thinking of Mr. Van Avery : as just a Chicken Little, even though I know that's not true. There : are many, many important objectives for Linux, of which 3d graphics is : only one. I really don't need to see a half dozen theses written on : this topic every couple of days. I had hoped that by putting all my posts in 1 thread, out of comp.os.linux.development.system, and into other more relevant groups that hadn't heard from me yet, would make people happy. 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