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From: gienger@iris.rz.uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger)
Subject: Re: Freeware community needs 3d library NOW
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
: Ian Kemmish wrote:
: ] People currently write device drivers for existing 2D chipsets
: ] for these freeware platforms, so the interface details must be
: ] available. What makes interfacing to 3D chipsets different?
: ] If they're all going to be working to the D3D API, then surely
: ] the situation becomes easier, not harder, than at present?
:
: Actually, the difference is that many 3D capable hardware vendors
: are not publishing programming information, except under NDA.
Why shouldn't hardware vendors give away programming specs of
their hardware?
It's very idiot to produce a hardware for, say, 90% of computers
(Windows playtools), and to prevent perhaps 5% of computer
users to use this hardware also by giving the chance to write
a library and/or device driver for that. I don't think a
vendor is against raising his/her sells...
Remember: Selling hardware to non-Windows users also
brings money...
So I don't see any reason for NDAs in this field...
Pascal
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