You can't own an API. (Otherwise Wine would not exist).
The issue is whether Creative looked at the Glide code when they wrote their TNT wrapper, or whether they developed the wrapper from scratch using the API docs.
Either way 3dfx seem to be trying to tie up standards in a manner which has distinct MS overtones. I was intending to get a Banshee for use under Linux, but I wavered because nVidia demonstrated greater sympathy to the OSS community by releasing their source. Now I'll get a TNT for sure.
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You can't own an API. (Otherwise Wine would not exist).
The issue is whether Creative looked at the Glide code when they wrote their TNT wrapper, or whether they developed the wrapper from scratch using the API docs.
Either way 3dfx seem to be trying to tie up standards in a manner which has distinct MS overtones. I was intending to get a Banshee for use under Linux, but I wavered because nVidia demonstrated greater sympathy to the OSS community by releasing their source. Now I'll get a TNT for sure.