Linux Foundation To Take Stab At 3D Patent Issue

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Foundation To Take Stab At 3D Patent Issue

This week at the X Developers' Conference there was a talk surrounding OpenGL 3.x and its lack of complete support within the latest Mesa code. While development manpower can end up be limiting, there are also some patent / legal issues surrounding this with regard to some parts of core OpenGL being covered by such inhibitive patents...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzU4Mg

[dungeon]

Fuck off Ian!

Fork!

[nanonyme]

Fuck off Ian!

Fork!

Have you ever considered therapy?

[dungeon]

Have you ever considered therapy?

This question goes to staging-tree.

[Dragoran]

Well this: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8253 might put and end to this crap ... hopefully.

[MostAwesomeDude]

Fuck off Ian!

Fork!

Ian has represented the open-source community diligently for quite a few years as a member of the OpenGL ARB. He's a very skilled and intelligent person, and is widely regarded as one of the people that have made open-source accelerated 3D possible.

If you'd like to fork, the code is right in front of you. Have fun.

[Yfrwlf]

Well this: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8253 might put and end to this crap ... hopefully.

Go Red Hat!