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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!auspex-gw.auspex.com!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!ratatosk.yggdrasil.com!adam From: adam@adam.yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter) 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 Date: 29 Jun 1996 21:26:54 GMT Organization: Yggdrasil Computing, Inc. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4r472u$6od@freya.yggdrasil.com> References: <4qlf04$7pj@guysmiley.blarg.net> <4qt6im$ne9@guysmiley.blarg.net> <31D2F678.7091309D@sullivan.bentley.com> <dnelsonDts07o.FMx@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: adam.yggdrasil.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.graphics.api.misc:676 comp.graphics.algorithms:29143 comp.windows.x.i386unix:20398 gnu.misc.discuss:26814 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22451 comp.os.linux.development.apps:18226 In article <dnelsonDts07o.FMx@netcom.com>, Nelson <dnelson@netcom.com> wrote: >How about just making an nice ANSI standard >for a 3D API. Then we don't have to worry about >GNU, Microsoft or whomever everybody is paranoid >about. I don't know why you consider ANSI to be any nicer than GNU, Microsoft or whomever. Final versions of ANSI standards are generally not freely redistributable and not available online. Personally, I would like to see a free formalized standards process, like the internet RFC's, available for specifying more than just internet protocols. -- Adam J. Richter Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated (408) 261-6630 "Free Software For The Rest of Us."