Petition for OpenGL

[chopin1810]

Seriously guys, we need to get more people to sign this... go to other Linux forums, tell people... if the writers of this petition are really going to be that ambicious by the time they reach 100.000 signatures, then we need to work towards that goal.

[burnit]

Little confused...

DirectX are over OpenGL, right? Yes, because they have an higher level abstraction layer..
They (I mean Microsoft) will slowdown all OpenGL direct implementation and DirectX performance will be greater than OpenGL (this should be dimostrated... Absurd ).

But at the moment wich games are based ONLY on OpenGL libraries? All, no, too esagerate, most Windows games are DirectX libraries dependent.

Windows applications based on OpenGL ported on Linux? Tell me which great Windows software is ported on Linux (they can be counted on fingers of my hands, they are precompiled because closed and I couldn't try them because they are built very often on RedHat systems wich use it's own library name and version scheme).

This event can be a launch of professional (and probably proprietary) application developement on non-Windows platform (and why not... GNU/Linux? ). If so, probably some manufacturer could develop some better driver, or simply a driver...

[chopin1810]

Hey, I don't even know what opengl or directx really do... all i do know is that they have something to do with managing the program's graphics system...

[napolian]

Done and Done

[Vergil83]

as much fun as it is to hate MS, you guys are going way overboard about this.....
the opengl post that started it all

As soon as an [installable client driver] is loaded the composited desktop is turned off on Windows Vista. If you want the composited desktop Aeroglass experience, you will need to make your application go through Microsoft's OpenGL implementation, which is layered on top of DirectX. As pointed out earlier, this layering can have performance implications. Their implementation supports OpenGL version 1.4 only, without extension support.

When the opengl driver you install when you install your video card loads, the MS opengl driver will shutoff, and you can't run aeroglass anymore. That is all it does. It will not affect your games, because they will still use the drivers you video card installs. Basically MS is using their (most likely inferior) opengl driver for MS related tasks. This is just an issue of MS doing something dumb.

[chopin1810]

Exactly!