OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious

ikol writes "After over a year of delays, the OpenGL ARB (part of the Khronos industry group) today released the long-awaited spec for OpenGL 3.0 as part of the SIGGRAPH 2008 proceedings. Unfortunately it turns out not to be the major rewrite that was promised to developers. The developer community is generally furious, with many game developers intending to jump ship to DX10. Is this the end of cross-platform 3d on the cutting edge?"

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Re:This can't be good.

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Off course. You know what's the worse part?
Certain parts of the community have become "politically correct", like the Mozilla Foundation, so they wouldn't join a boycott like the one I'm about to propose, but imagine this:

What would happen if the Free Software Community started to fight them with the same weapons they use?

A lot of people is already using Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin, etc.

And the counterpart of those desktop apps on the server side is even bigger, how many are running Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc? How many are using Joomla or Awstats?

If the community suddenly started to tweek the server-side apps to provide better support for Firefox for example, intentionally breaking IE, we would see TONS of people switching to Firefox.

Also, how many developers use PHP+MySQL but develop on Windows? What if the community decided to move on developing new versions of PHP only for Unix? How many would switch?

I know that means war. So what?

But it's not going to happen. It's sad when you see things like MySQL (now a property of Sun), a company that is where it is right now thanks to the GNU Project, releasing it's workbench as a windows only app dependant on .NET!!!!!