Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Halbert wrote:
> > While I agree that MSVC++ *should* include OpenGL,
>
> Why? It's freely available elsewhere. Why should MS include free
> software and pay for the bandwidth for everyone to download it when many
> (most) people won't want it, given that it's presumedly simply a matter
> of downloading it from the authors somewhere?

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 in
industry-strength standards... why give ideas to developers by including
foreign tech?...

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