In article <401c0f53$1@news.povray.org> , "Dan P" 
<dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> 1. Microsoft is
> realizing that their gaming business very important and they tend to do well
> on things they find important (think IDEs), and

If you do games, yes.  But maybe you missed it, but there are other uses of
3D graphics.  And the interest and money behind that is several magnitudes
bigger than what 3D games can ever reach.  One of these interests is
commonly referred to as "military".  And you sure don't think anybody still
designs houses, cars, ships, trains or and other machine or device with
pencil and paper these days, do you?

> 2. I have been in SGI and I
> have reason not to have confidence in that company based on personal,
> anecdotal experience.

You have no clue about the specification process of OpenGL, do you?  Because
if you did you would know that SGI released the OpenGL specification process
to a industry group a *very* long time ago.

    Thorsten

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