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SGI Further Opens its OpenGL Contributions

SGI Further Opens its OpenGL Contributions

Posted Sep 19, 2008 21:00 UTC (Fri) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094)
Parent article: SGI Further Opens its OpenGL Contributions

free at last
free at last
I'm so glad no one evil bought sgi and abused the hell out of everyone
free at last


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evil

Posted Sep 22, 2008 14:19 UTC (Mon) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Well, a while back SGI had a Microsoft shill as a CEO (went on to work
directly for MS later), and I believe it was during that time that SGI
sold a bunch of graphics patents to MS. I'm pretty sure these were
OpenGL-related too.

So I'm not jumping up and down just yet.

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