It's about time for Warren Buffet to get some comeuppance. A cutthroat buyout specialist masquerading as a down home good ol boy. Admires Lloyd Blankfein. Opines that Barklays did nothing wrong by fiddling the LIBOR. Profited hugely from the world's misery in 2008. Hates technology so much that he believes buying shrinking dead tree newspapers is a great idea, because there aren't any buggy whip factories to buy. Go for it Warren!

After all, it worked so well for Conrad Black.

Respectfully (or perhaps not) you lack the slightest clue about anything to do with 3D graphics and it shows. This $50 Radeon running OpenGL 4 under Catalyst says you are talking out of your butt. A quick trip to Google makes nonsense of your FUD. Facts are a bitch for a guy like you, aren't they?

OpenGL ES - do you even know what it is? OK, that was rhetorical, obviously again you don't have a clue. Allow me. OpenGL ES is OpenGL with the legacy fixed function pipeline stuff stripped away. Begin/End is gone (use drawarrays). Feedback is gone (do your own transforms). All kinds of crap is gone. But all the drawarrays, vertex buffer objects, frame buffer objects, shaders ... all that stuff that maps well to 3D hardware is still there. Plus some added functionality like fixed point numbers that was later added to OGL 4. In other words, OpenGL ES is no toy, sorry to rain on your one troll parade.

As for Kronos, the bitching from hotheads died down long ago when it was demonstrated how to advance the library specs properly without losing compatibility. Nobody except Microsoft retreads whines about that any more. Coming down the pipe pretty soon is the new stateless API. DirectX is already chasing OpenGL taillights, and with the stateless API in place DirectX will be completely lost in the dust. Meanwhile, OpenGL has already evolved into a great API for games and CAD at the same time, just as Microsoft hoped it never would be.

Time to pull your hairy foot out of your mouth, or maybe you love the taste of toe jam.

Of course, there is always the chance that Nokia might rise from the dead and infect us all with DirectX Lumia phones. <shudder>

Why, your dear friend Richard Stallman has made that promise, because this code base was put under GPL by John Carmack just so that it can never be taken private. Got anything else to moan about?

With a copyleft license on the code and a vibrant community, who needs luck?

Let's face it, you're a trolling FUDster. In case you haven't noticed, OpenGL rules the world at the moment, except for exactly one segment that Microsoft runs as a walled garden (an $8 billion vanity project) and the PC gaming segment from which Microsoft failed to completely evict OpenGL, not for want of trying or lack of expenditure. Every other platform is OpenGL, and those platforms are growing far faster than Microsoft's DirectX segment.

On top of that, DirectX has gone back to being the crappy API. Sure, it was first to move on some necessary improvements to the 3D rendering pipeline and for a time it held a technical lead over OpenGL in some ways. But that is history. OpenGL 4+ is to DirectX as... an Arabian stallion is to a Camel? Sure, Microsoft's Camel can race, but it still smells like a camel.

John played his part admirably, both in providing the open community with several lovely, pragmatic examples of high performance 3D engine design and in preventing Microsoft from killing off OpenGL as a gaming platform. I think that's enough. We ought to be able to take it from here.

Hear, hear. Gmail is the best of the webmailers and it still sucks ass.

I suspect it doesn't. Look, for example, at the series of fines Microsoft had to pay in the EU for just pretending to comply while in reality maintaining barriers.

Car analogy: Ford didn't actually have to put bombs into the Pintos to be liable for exploding gastanks. The gas tank just had to have a probability of exploding. Microsoft just has to be guilty of making things inconvenient to be found to have used its market power to erect a barrier to competition.

Why would you think that?

Oh interesting, and in two years most of them will be Android tablets. Just a modest prediction.

It got MBAed.

A modern printer worthy of the name is also a scanner, photocopier and fax, I doubt that most consumers have moved past all of those.

You guys are getting your story confused. One says the story is trash, the other says the summary is trash, a third (me) actually read the article and found it neither biased nor irrelevant.

Of course, there is nothing more morally challenged than an Apple employee with mod points. Just don't give this company power over your private information, people.