Tag Archives: DirectX

Microsoft threatens OpenGL

Posted on 15 July 2002 by meta

As I predicted back in January when Microsoft bought up SGI’s patent library, they’re using the patents to threaten OpenGL. For those who don’t know the technical details: Most of the porting difficulties with games software are because of use … Continue reading →

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Holy crap

Posted on 17 January 2002 by meta

Microsoft has bought SGI’s library of 3D graphics patents. Now they can kill OpenGL at will and force developers to use DirectX.

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