Genesis 3D has been around for a while (open sourced) and the team got bought/ became part of WildTangent and it became Jet3D. WildTangent is a co started by one of the original DirectX team members that is working on a 3D browser plug-in. That's why that usage is forbidden in the liscense.
There's a commercial game using the engine comming out shortly called AI Wars.
You people complaining about no linux support seem to miss the point of Open Source. Why would you need the source if it does everything you want already? Start coding.
But couldn't you just bypass linux altogeather and in-line assembly to do nasty stuff. Of course that'd only work on the linux machines running. Are the BIOS chips still active?
Seriously, there's the old addage, "be careful what you wish for, you might get it." If Linux ever does get to be on everyone's desktop, users will make today's newbies look like sysadmins. And that's what will drive people to write virii for Linux. As the old pros become disillusioned, some of them will start to write virii.
The reason most virii are on windows is because the people writing them think people who use windows are stupid. The day will come when people get sick of "all these stupid Linux newbies, using Corel" and decide they're going to teach them a lesson
This is a quote from Newsweek on the arrival of the PS2: "It's historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did," says Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts and CEO of 3DO. "This is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature." I think this is the kind of hype Katz is talking about. This kind of stuff is outrageous. The point is media (new or old) is just a tool to communicate ideas. Just because a tool is new doesn't mean it's better.
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Here's my problem.
If you were really going to install a super-secret backdoor that no-one knew about, why would you call netscape engineers 'weenies'?
I personally would pick a much more obscene term, wouldn't you?
Why did these guys show restraint? Makes you think...
Genesis 3D has been around for a while (open sourced) and the team got bought/ became part of WildTangent and it became Jet3D. WildTangent is a co started by one of the original DirectX team members that is working on a 3D browser plug-in. That's why that usage is forbidden in the liscense.
There's a commercial game using the engine comming out shortly called AI Wars.
You people complaining about no linux support seem to miss the point of Open Source. Why would you need the source if it does everything you want already? Start coding.
But couldn't you just bypass linux altogeather and in-line assembly to do nasty stuff. Of course that'd only work on the linux machines running. Are the BIOS chips still active?
Seriously, there's the old addage, "be careful what you wish for, you might get it." If Linux ever does get to be on everyone's desktop, users will make today's newbies look like sysadmins. And that's what will drive people to write virii for Linux. As the old pros become disillusioned, some of them will start to write virii.
The reason most virii are on windows is because the people writing them think people who use windows are stupid. The day will come when people get sick of "all these stupid Linux newbies, using Corel" and decide they're going to teach them a lesson
... so they can tell you what other books you should buy.
This is a quote from Newsweek on the arrival of the PS2: "It's historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did," says Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts and CEO of 3DO. "This is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature." I think this is the kind of hype Katz is talking about. This kind of stuff is outrageous. The point is media (new or old) is just a tool to communicate ideas. Just because a tool is new doesn't mean it's better.