Ray Heasman wrote:

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>And there we start diverging. The problem is that things don't stand
>still. There will always be a proprietary chipset with open source
>drivers that beats what an OGP design could do.
>
Will there? Examples?


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>The user might pay more for "different" if they think "different" is in
>some way cooler.
>
Freedom is cool.

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>>>If I want an OpenGL card, I will buy a nVidia or ATI card that is
>>>reasonably well supported by an open source driver.
>>>      
>>>
>>What happens when Radeon 9250's run into short supply?
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>>
>
>I will buy a card that is currently cheap and has open source support
>equivalent to that of the Radeon 9250, and it will probably be several
>times faster. And I will be able to do so, because there are lots of
>open source developers making it happen. An OGP-designed card provides
>no special value for me there, beyond a mild wish to help out open
>source projects. Most real world people don't have that wish.
>  
>
But, those developers wasted their time re-writing support
for cards that darned well ought to be available. I  would
prefer to see them spending it on something more useful,
like maybe porting SDL to the new PS3 Linux platform so
it will run PyGame games that I write.

I know that it doesn't exactly work like that, but time-wasted
because of some twits hiding their specs annoys me,
nevertheless. It's pointless make-work and wasteful.

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>>>OpenGL is more than we need. It's also less than what we need. Reality
>>>has quietly gnawed at this list, and people are now talking about doing
>>>most of the hard stuff off of the card, or doing something besides a
>>>graphics card. Great, so why are we here again?
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>>>
>>We're here because we have something we'd like to accomplish.  Not
>>every thing is easy, but I have build a number of real and potential
>>business relationships around this project that, should they come to
>>fruition, will give us the boost we need.
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>
>Hm. My experience is that words are cheap. I might feel more
>enthusiastic about OGP if I had more detail about those relationships,
>but I have learned that such relationships aren't usually worth much
>until after there is a contract and money on the table. They increase
>your chance of success from 1% to about 3%.
>  
>
A factor of three is pretty good; entrepreneurship is always
risky; and I think you're underestimating the odds when one
of the "business relationships" Timothy is talking about is
probably his current employer, who is apparently pretty
supportive of this project.

Cheers,
Terry

-- 
Terry Hancock (hancock@AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com


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