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NVIDIA Cg Compiler Technology to be Open Source
Jim Norton writes "This announcement from nVidia states that
their Cg compiler technology for 3D applications will be Open Source and available under a free, unrestrictive license. The ETA for this is in August and will be available here." The linked company release says it will be under "a nonrestrictive, free license," but does not give further details. BSD?
I can't help but think back to 3DfX and the glide library and think that this may be Nvidia's goal, it probably would be a great way for Nvidia optomized code to be developed if the compiler automatically did some special things for Nvidia cards even if it did output a product that works on almost all video cards (OpenGL).
What a great announcement. It's really great to see all these great organizations coming to their senses. It really shows just how much unity and togetherness we share in the free software community. It really, truly is an excellent and remarkable time to be alive, and to be into the free software and open-source scene we all love. I'm sure the forefathers of free software, like ESR, Linus Torvalds, and Richard Stallman would have wished that they could have been alive and around today had they known about how awesome the scene just is this very day. I'm sure they would have given anything to witness these wonderful times. I, for one, am certainly looking forward to downloading a few of these incredible wares; they certainly look great based on my own research and the opinions of others, whom I really and truly respect, deeply. I hope that you, too, my friend, can scrounge up enough change, enough dough (times are tough), and purchase you and your best buddies some prime bandwidth to this going-to-be spectacular and amazing software servers. In fact, even if you don't have money, I really hope that you can borrow some, or just use someone else's net connection. Even if you plan on reselling the wares commercially, I am still happy just as long as someone buys your wares, as that would make that single person all the more happier to be using this wonderful and great software to be put on by these terriffic organizations. News like this just shows what a great time it really is for us all to be alive and well, and how these great organizations are breathing new life into and shattering our preconceptions about software in general. Hats of, my friends, and enjoy yourselves out there. Take care now, and whatever you don't don't miss out on this golden software opportuninty, this pot-of-gold at the end of the open-source rainbow, this 20 carat diamond hidden 20,000 leagues under the ocean of proprietary software, or you will regret it. Even in death, my friend, amigos, chumps, and buddies.
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You cannot waste an electron! Electrons can only be anhilated by collision with a positron or some other elementaty particle reaction.
Hah! You know, everyone should go read this post I made in reference to the Slashcode changes.
I mentioned how CmdrTaco and friends will never defeat the trolls because they are some of the most ingenius and inventive Slashdot users. This is a perfect example. Way to go sllort! Thanks for proving me right!
All the changes to Slashcode will do is hurt the users who do not troll. Stupid Taco.
Why bother.
brilliant.
sulli
RTFJ.