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OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the community-management-derailed dept.

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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  1. Re:KDE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sigh! Yet another slashdot meme that once was marginally funny & has been done to death by the socially retarded.

  2. Re:The Chicken and the Egg by ozmanjusri · · Score: 0, Troll
    See Ed Bott's Windows adoption rates: a history lesson [zdnet.com]

    You're seriously quoting Bott? He'll write whatever his owners in Redmond tell him to.

    In this case, he's distorting the truth to make Vista adoption rates look better. Read what he writes carefully. None of it is actually untrue, at least as far as I know, but none actually supports the premise of his conclusion either.

    It's all smoke and mirrors, folks.

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    "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
  3. Ah, another example of how "open" ... by NateTech · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... always creates the best possible software solutions.

    OpenGL can't get their crap together because they have no goals and no rewards for hitting them.

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    +++OK ATH