lenny bruce writes: > I believe we're being cheated by a transparent payware conspiracy. > We're the only platform where HW OpenGL for XFree86 is payware. > > It must be political. > > Somehow Tenon is preventing XonX from releasing XFree86 with Hardware > OpenGL support.
Tenon has done no such thing. I am an XDarwin developer. Tenon has done nothing to block OpenGL support in XDarwin. In fact, a preliminary version of XFree86 with OpenGL support already exists. Go to http://xfree86.org/cvs/ and download the source and build it yourself. You will have hardware- accelerated OpenGL in XDarwin's rootless mode. > Apple GIVES us the shared libraries and headers necessary to link to > Hardware OpenGL in /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework for > free. Tenon is getting away with being able to SELL the open-source > completely-free XFree86 with a teeny tiny modification while forbidding > XonX from doing it. Modifying XFree86 to use Apple's OpenGL library is not a "teeny tiny modification". The glue code between X11's GL and Quartz's GL is non- trivial, is tricky to do correctly, and requires significant knowledge of the details of both systems. Tenon worked on GL for a while, along with their rootless implementation (which is unrelated to XDarwin's), and charges $199 for the result. XFree86 uses a BSD-like license, which specifically allows them to do this. I worked on GL for a few weeks, and the result is in XFree86 CVS right now. If you're displeased with it or with Tenon's version, feel free to write the "teeny tiny modification" yourself. Neither Tenon nor I nor anyone else will forbid it as you accuse. > (Don't bitch about Mac OS X being a commercial product built on free > materials. Apple makes Darwin available for free, they're only charging > us for Aqua and Cocoa. You can run XFree86 on top of Darwin for free.) As far as I know, Darwin does not come with an OpenGL library. Is Apple evil because they charge for OpenGL support? (Adrian, feel free to repost this to oroborosx-discuss.) -- Greg Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
