Linked by Anonymous Reader on Wed 21st Dec 2005 22:09 UTC
Yes it would be nice if X.org could use OpenGL directly for it's display and composition, but to date, nobody has made this possible. Is it wrong for a business to make it so? Since when does developing software for GNU products mean that they aren't allowed to do it privately? If Novell is developing XGL behind closed doors, and paying the developers to build it... Where's the problem?
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2005-12-20
- You are totally right. Demo level. But you must understand what that means, and how much work it takes to build sometihng like this. being able to even showoff demo moves on something like this, puts you months, if not years ahead of people trying to do the same from the starting line.
- This article refers to Aaron Seigo (KDE developer) and his comments about Novell building XGL behind closed doors. That's why it's being brought up.
- Novell is completely free to take Open Source code and build something onto it that they feel they could use. They are also free to build that same technology, and release it back into the wild if they want. They are notorious for doing this, and nobody ever said they were going to keep XGL for themselves.
- Seriously guy, if Novell comes out with a version of X that can do what OS X does...I'd guess the majority of users choosing Linux for Desktop would want X.org's EXA accelerated server. Novell seems to pop out some mighty fine projects that are ahead of the game in most cases (Hula, Beagle, OpenSuse..etc). They are bringing things to the desktop that other people aren't bothering with, but everybody wants. I doubt X maintainers would refuse a nice slab of code that can do what GLX is (hopefully) reported to do.
- You last bit about proprietary software....yeah it seems that's where it's headed. At least in your mind. Novell has been released code left and right to the public, including things they've sold as proprietary products (Netmail for example). Again, they are free to take X, change it however they want, and spit it back out however they want.
You seem to be one of those people who promote Open Source, tout it's wonderful ideals, and then get offended when it works the way it's described to.