Carmack: Lord of the Games

seer writes: "This article on Red Herring is a nice look at the interworkings of id software, most specifically their famous employee John Carmack. It delves deeply into the fact that id has stayed a very small company and dabbles with other topics such as Carmack's tendency to stay away from Microsoft 'standards' and the whole DooM ]I[ debacle. An interesting read."

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Re:Could they use actual technology names?

[BitwizeGHC]

As Cipher said, "Surprise, Enstein!" DirectX has won the 3D standard wars; it's from Microsoft, ergo it is the standard. OpenGL is a niche market; I don't think the reporter even knows what it is. If Carmack mentioned OpenGL without explanantion to a clueless tech "journalist", the assumption that Carmack magicked it out of the void is not surprising, albeit no less disappointing.