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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 21:34:59 GMT
Organization: Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
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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.

	ANSI standards are generally not freely redistributable and
not available online.  

	I, for one, would prefer to see the extremely successful
internet "RFC" framework extended to establishment of standards in
areas beyond just internet protocols.

-- 
Adam J. Richter				  Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated
(408) 261-6630				  "Free Software For The Rest of Us."