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SGI Further Opens its OpenGL Contributions

SGI Further Opens its OpenGL Contributions

Posted Sep 20, 2008 15:12 UTC (Sat) by branden (guest, #7029)
In reply to: SGI Further Opens its OpenGL Contributions by ballombe
Parent article: SGI Further Opens its OpenGL Contributions

Yup. Completely awesome!

That stuff was an albatross around my neck.

I'm glad Jim Gettys (and others) prevailed in getting this sensible revision pushed through. Props to SGI!

I expect Mark Kilgard is grumbling about how unnecessary it all is.


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SGI Further Opens its OpenGL Contributions

Posted Sep 21, 2008 19:15 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

The FSF had been working behind the scenes on this for some time, which is why SGI prominently mentions them in the press release.

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