Natural selection would mean that it would be ok for me to beat you to death. However in civilized nations we create rules that the majority of people believe are for the greater good. These rules general serve to protect those those that need protecting.

If he's got 10 million invested, having 500k in the bank is a reasonable percentage. You don't want all your money tied up in non-liquid assets.

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.

I can't believe I don't get any mod points today. Informative, Insightful, this one has it all.

I can clearly see why you posted anonymously.

I think what you meant to say is that "People should not be permitted to use more than what I think their share of resources are..."

I think what you meant to say is that "If you have over half a million users, you're paying Microsoft enough money that they have people there fixing problems already."

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.

No, they don't. You WANT them to run better than what you could buy new. In reality today's cars and trucks are better than just about anything we've ever had. When you combine safety, performance, and reliability they are better than anything we've had.

I would mod you +1 "You're right but nobody that drives to work wants to believe you" if I could.