OpenGL is called "Open" GL because it's *not* proprietary. SGI released OpenGL many years ago to a standards committee. I really doubt there are any "graphics experts" out there who will agree that Direct3D is technically superior to OpenGL. What OpenGL accomplished in Terminator 2 still blows away anything the PC could hope to offer, now years later. That said, I do agree Linux needs some serious marketing help. But first, it needs some serious desktop help, in both stability and ease of use. SGI & nVIDIA have partnered to develop OpenGL on Linux. Let's just hope OpenGL, Mesa, and related hardware accelerated 3D and media API's remain open source and have some higher level interfaces so that game developers are really tempted to use them!
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OpenGL is called "Open" GL because it's *not* proprietary. SGI released OpenGL many years ago to a standards committee. I really doubt there are any "graphics experts" out there who will agree that Direct3D is technically superior to OpenGL. What OpenGL accomplished in Terminator 2 still blows away anything the PC could hope to offer, now years later. That said, I do agree Linux needs some serious marketing help. But first, it needs some serious desktop help, in both stability and ease of use. SGI & nVIDIA have partnered to develop OpenGL on Linux. Let's just hope OpenGL, Mesa, and related hardware accelerated 3D and media API's remain open source and have some higher level interfaces so that game developers are really tempted to use them!