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MS Buys (Some) SGI Patents

Posted by Hemos on from the render-faster-and-faster dept.

FatRatBastard writes "The Reg. is reporting that Microsoft has purchased the rights to most of SGI's 3D patents. Speculation from the Reg hacks is that MS may want the patents more for crushing OpenGL support than for technology they're building inhouse." Well, crush is strong - but it would give them more leverage with some hardware vendors for sure.

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  1. "Insightful" ?!! by apankrat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How the hell was moderating this message ?

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  2. Re:Only the first step. by L0rdJedi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So this gets modded up to Insightful (from Funny) and the reply gets modded down as OffTopic?! What the hell is going on?!

  3. Thats SIX years old. SIX !!! by VividU · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And it got moderated to a 5.