On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 10:07 AM, William Scott wrote:
My thesis is:I'm afraid I found this almost impossible to follow with all of the nested quotes, etc.Did I make my point? or should I quote some more stuff?
I'm assuming this isn't just random ranting and raving. If so, could you please formulate the complaint very concisely and back it up with arguments presented in some sort of logical hierarchy so that someone like me, who would like to have faster-running X-windows programs but basically has no idea what you are talking about, can understand it? If you do this carefully, you are much more likely to convince someone to take up the cause (although I wouldn't count on Ashcroft's DOJ; they are too preoccupied with scrapping the Bill of Rights, Articles 1,3-10). You could even make a web page, which would probably be more effective anyway. Just be very careful to stick to facts so you don't wind up providing a meal for their libel attorneys.
Tenon is harming us by holding our Graphics Accelerator Chips hostage.
We are forced to use painfully slow Software OpenGL unless we pay them.
They removed Hardware OpenGL Support from the Mac OS X version of XFree86,
which is free on all other platforms, so they can they charge us for it
WHILE THEY FORBID ITS FREE RELEASE by XonX through criminal racketeering.
XFree86 is free open-source software that Tenon did not create.
Tenon is not only harming Mac OS X users of XFree86 directly
but their criminal racketeering makes Mac OS X less attractive as a platform
because we're the only platform who has to pay for decent graphic performance.
Why choose Mac OS X to run XFree86 when it's free everywhere else?
You can now easily understand my 28k previous post of quotations...
but here is a brief version of my backing:
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I would have NO CASE if XFree86 HW-OpenGL was payware on any other platform.
I would have HALF A CASE if Tenon had written the OS X version of this feature
This would entitle them to sell it even if it would be lousy sportsmanship
because no other contributor to the XFree86 project charges for their work.
My research shows that TENON DID NOT WRITE THIS CODE THEY HOLD AGAINST US!!!
Tenon abandoned their original code before taking the free code to market!
Tenon's only original contribution to XTools is an Aqua Window Manager Switcher
which is similar to OroborOSX... but their single selling point is HW-OpenGL.
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What restriction is okay for Tenon to make on this code they did not write?
It is not fair for them to make exclusively payware on Mac OS X
a feature in XFree86 that is free everywhere else.
Imagine if XFree86 was free on all platforms only if you proved you were WHITE,
making it payware to Black and Asian users? Would it be okay then? NO!
How about if it was only payware if you are Jewish? Sound good? NO!
Tenon is not saying
"we wrote this code so only we will market it",
they're actually saying
"only we will market this free code and don't you dare release it"
and they're whispering these threats to the XonX team.
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I said: look who Christoph (creator of Fink) targets and who he leaves alone.
OpenOSX.com sells XFree86 plus OroborOSX claiming to approximate Tenon's product
yet they cannot provide the HW-OpenGL feature Tenon criminally withholds
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I said: the excuses the XonX team makes about why no HW-OpenGL are ridiculous
XonX wrote the shared library support...
Apple wrote the OpenGL shared libraries and provided the headers...
and Tenon ran away with the cash while threatening people to keep quiet.
I've read XonX members making ridiculous excuses
which only sound perfectly valid to the uninformed nontechnical user
they bitch about how difficult it is to address so many different cards directly
yet that's the whole point of OpenGL... you don't address hardware directly!
OpenGL.org says: "OpenGL drivers encapsulate information about the underlying hardware, freeing the application developer from having to design for specific hardware features".
Apple already provided the complex base to hardware that OpenGL requires
so all anyone has to do is link to the OpenGL shared libraries with the headers.
ladies and gentlemen, that fact that we're using Software OpenGL
means that they could just as easily turn on Hardware OpenGL,
but they simply WON'T DO IT... to maintain Tenon's advantage because of threats.
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the "it's now available on the cvs" excuses
is not valid for three reasons
1) that's saying "well, you got it now, years later..."
COMPANIES EXIST ON MARGINAL BARRIERS OF TIME
Pharmaceutical companies can charge high prices for drugs they invent only for a limited time before others are eventually allowed to make generics.
Apple won the publishing market because of the time it took for the world to catch up to them. Apple always had at least fourteen years on every feature. They ensured they'd keep the publishing market by licensing their lousy TrueType technology to Windoze, knowing that it would keep Windoze users from ever discovering PostScript. The time barrier also gave vendors a chance to lock Windoze users away from the flexibility to create media when they finally gave them some of those Mac features. The effect of the time barrier was to limit Windoze in every way to "viewer-only" status. Nobody in the media minds when people claim Windoze won because they chuckle at how the "winners" have crippled themselves. (Imagine crippling yourself so you can win the Special Olympics instead of simply training for the real Olympics.)
The media's advantage over the general public is now only transparent. The old gigantic "capital expense" barriers are gone because one can simply buy a Macintosh. The joke is that people won't do it. The media elite feared their time barrier had expired when the Mac came along and replaced typesetting equipment but were relieved when the public insisted on crippling themselves beyond imagination to save fifty dollars. Now all media is made on Mac (video, print, packaging, production, recording, editing, design, you name it...) yet nobody has to hide anything or pretend otherwise because the general public is still wondering why they can't get anything accomplished on Windoze.
okay, I got distracted but TIME is a big issue... TIME enabled them to profit.
2) it's not available as a Fink package.
The damn thing is compiling now as I write this... grumble grumble.
Why does cvs update fail with "invalid option -- C" ???
3) it maintains the FICTION that the time we've enduring Software OpenGL
due to some difficulty the XonX porters had in enabling HW-OpenGL Support
HW-OpenGL Support existed in XFree86 from the moment the XonX team ported it.
The only "problem" is that Tenon forced XonX to disable it so they could make a commercial product out of it. Nobody knows what means Tenon used to prevent XonX from releasing XFree86 intact as on every other platform. It was definitely more difficult for XonX to force XFree86's OpenGL code to ignore the hardware acceleration and instead use the software-only rendering than it was for them to enable OpenGL (GLX) in the first place.
The whole point of OpenGL is Hardware Acceleration! It was invented to give developers a single universal access point to address the plethora of accelerator chips in modern graphics cards. The software rendering in OpenGL has never been commonly used because most people have graphics cards with hardware acceleration. OpenGL only provides software-only rendering to ensure dead-end compatibility in the two rare cases where: 1) a hardware vendor isn't finished writing a driver; or 2) when the user is so cheap that they don't have a modern video card. Nobody chooses software-only rendering on purpose or prefers it.
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I just wanna play the UNIX version of MAME...
I have a NVIDIA chip, please let me use it.
lenny bruce
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