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11 Oct 2024 03:15:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: My Experience with Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 12 Feb 2008 06:53:57
Message: <47b188d5$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> yeah, and besides it would work against M$ policy of pushing their own 
>> standards
>> (DirectX) rather than work together with the rest of the industry
> 
> Yep. Welcome to for-profit software companies.
> 
> Name two other for-profit software companies that encourage you to use 
> the competitors' software when you try out theirs for free?

The MS Platform SDK does include the OpenGL headers, however. MS are 
obviously not too worried about promoting competing products.


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