Linked by David Adams on Tue 23rd Sep 2008 00:12 UTC, submitted by zz
SGI and the Khronos Group published a new license for OpenGL. "The license, which now mirrors the free X11 license used by X.Org, further opens previously released SGI graphics software that has set the industry standard for visualization software and has proven essential to GNU/Linux and a host of applications." New new license is shorter than the the FreeB license in version 1.1, which wasn't an Open Source license.
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2007-02-17
Well there are still things that opengl can do that DirectX can't touch due to its focus. Because Opengl was written with more professional means in mind (then adapted for gaming by Carmack and gang), the api has supported features which you used to only see really expensive hardware accelerate, the software renderer could support them. Its a very powerful api and even though I would like see a better response time form the Khronos group I think they are moving in the right direction.