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Comment: Re:Big news... (Score 1) 461

by BiAthlon (#29172545) Attached to: Linux Port For id's Tech 5 Graphics Engine Unlikely

You have to have OpenGL support in the driver that you're trying to use. Linux support of OpenGL, even though it does work, it not optimized the say way that the Windows support is. What John is saying is that they are using some of the less commonly used OpenGL routines and that the only shot of it working in Linux is to use the Nvidia binary driver. I don't know what the current rate of use of ATI versus Nvidia is among Linux users but if you reduce the Linux market from the entire market to only the ones that are running Linux with a binary Nvidia driver it cuts a small market to an even smaller market.

Comment: Re:HOWTO: Using a SUBSET to create LOCK-IN!!! (Score 1) 186

by BiAthlon (#27568543) Attached to: Sun's Phipps Slams App Engine's Java Support

The problem with your theory is that point number 2 and number 5 are false. There are no private APIs. If there were private APIs it would not be a subset, it would be a superset with missing functionality.

The only issue with Google using a subset of functionality is that if they strip too much out that is useful developers won't use it and instead opt to use one of the many other hosting options.

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