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Created by Frederik Hertzum on September 22, 2005, 11:25 am

In the current implementation (as of 2005-09-22) of the OpenGL graphics library in Windows Vista - a soon to be released new version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, OpenGL is not a stand alone library. Instead it functions as a wrapper around DirectX, and is frozen to the vanilla version of OpenGL 1.4.

This means that OpenGL applications in Windows Vista will, most likely, suffer from severe perfromance loss, that, when an OpenGL driver is loaded, the Windows operating system will have odd behaviours and that future versions of OpenGL will not affect the Windows Vista platform. This would result in less developers actively supporting OpenGL, and as a result, less applications written which are easy to port to another platform or easy to maintain.

This can still be changed. Either if Microsoft drops the current implementation - which is not a technical decision, but a political decision - or if Microsoft releases the information needed for third parties to write a new, functional driver for OpenGL.

This undersigned strongly encourage everyone who has anything to do with OpenGL, DirectX or Windows to put preassure on Windows to change this policy and to allow one of the two possible solutions to be carried out.

This petition will be send to Microsoft, ATI, nVidia, 3D Labs, Matrox, Apple and SGI once 100.000 people have signed. The reason for this relative low number is due to the technical nature of the problem.
      


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1,545 22 Jun 2008 - 15:16    Federico Santandrea : OpenGL is strongly needed. It's a library which is way more useful than DirectX. Choosing to implement only the latter just because it's yours is not a good idea, and there will be consequences.
1,544 26 Mar 2008 - 3:43    Chris Harris :
1,543 13 Mar 2008 - 22:42    yasin : name is this
1,542 20 Feb 2008 - 4:11    brad :
1,541 30 Dec 2007 - 18:58    Tiago Cadavez :
1,540 27 Dec 2007 - 16:40    Rodolpho Costa Stach :
1,539 18 Nov 2007 - 18:22    Joni Ratilainen :
1,538 14 Apr 2007 - 18:35    PuAzZo : I wanna play Tremulous on Vista!
1,537 13 Apr 2007 - 1:41    duccio :
1,536 11 Apr 2007 - 20:22    alessandro balestrieri :
1,535 9 Apr 2007 - 22:04    Dario Martini : Tutto ciò è assurdo. Absurd!
1,534 9 Apr 2007 - 6:49    James King : We want to play games the way it was meant to be! Down with DirectX
1,533 6 Apr 2007 - 3:02    Tescari Marcello :
1,532 1 Apr 2007 - 2:34    Aaron Miller : No comments.
1,531 1 Apr 2007 - 2:29    Ben Flowers : Come On you spitefull arses just because you didnt make it, doesnt mean that you should outlaw it, its not fair on us...
1,530 24 Mar 2007 - 18:42    elio : Una vergogna. Speriamo che questo S.O. di Bill Gates finisca presto. E vai di Open Source! Linux, Mac.
1,529 23 Mar 2007 - 16:57    James : It makes Microsoft look like it is trying to control the computer systems of the world. IS IT?
1,528 22 Mar 2007 - 11:40    Posenato Giancarlo :
1,527 22 Mar 2007 - 11:35    Stefano Gualtieri : Timeo Fenestras es dona ferentes
1,526 14 Mar 2007 - 22:49    Henry den Hengst :
1,525 13 Mar 2007 - 13:15    Augusto Tijerina : I enjoy several commercial games and applications that use OpenGL. I want to continue using them. Please support an open standard like OpenGL.
1,524 12 Mar 2007 - 15:06    Manta-Avoidâ„¢ : No sense in compatibility if it wont use OpenGL
1,523 12 Mar 2007 - 5:16    danielle kennedy : opengl is a piece of crap and it is preventing our games from running properly in vista
1,522 12 Mar 2007 - 5:14    greg kennedy : opengl is a crap shoot and it is preventing our games from running properly in vista
1,521 10 Mar 2007 - 22:44    Bob Wolf : I have a lot of OpenGL software that I use for my business. I upgraded to Vista and lost most of it for my clients. Need a solution soon, otherwise, its back to XP for my windows environment.
1,520 8 Mar 2007 - 3:00    wolfie : come on dont make the transition between xp and vista any more painful that it has to be!
1,519 8 Mar 2007 - 1:38    David Beaton : Let the best man win! Provide adequate support for both - and if DirectX is truly the better competitor that ought to be enough. Don't hinder our freedom of choice though!
1,518 8 Mar 2007 - 0:15    Diego : Finalmente un motivo serio per non passare a VISTA
1,517 7 Mar 2007 - 15:29    alessandro :
1,516 5 Mar 2007 - 20:23    Robert Millan :
1,515 2 Mar 2007 - 20:57    Witold Adamus : You pay a big Bill and you can walk into Gates of hell. There won`t be OGL port for Vista. MS is scarred about the OGL game porting.
1,514 1 Mar 2007 - 14:48    Paul Johnson :
1,513 28 Feb 2007 - 4:49    MOHAA : DAMIT MAKE DA DAM THIN SO I CAN PLAY MOHHA HOLY ****TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT I GO OUT AN BOUGHT VISTA NOWI CANT PLAY MY FAVORITE GAME=(=(=(=(
1,512 23 Feb 2007 - 5:12    Patryk Obara :
1,511 23 Feb 2007 - 5:12    Patryk Obara :
1,510 22 Feb 2007 - 2:20    Carlo Chiesa : Alla Microsoft se ne fregano degli standard :(
1,509 20 Feb 2007 - 21:54    Joonas Samposalo :
1,508 19 Feb 2007 - 2:08    Dimitris Triantafyl... : Billions of dollars for Vista development and still no decent ogl support? ok the want to promote their UGLY apis but there's a limit to how much you can screw your customers...
1,507 17 Feb 2007 - 1:06    LIberato Fiasca : Everybody on Linux, Boys !! No reason to stay with Microsoft !
1,506 16 Feb 2007 - 21:23    Roberto Desiderio :
1,505 16 Feb 2007 - 16:12    Evincaro : Senza OpenGL perchè passare a Vista... Mi sa che ci rimetto su Linux ;-)
1,504 15 Feb 2007 - 4:42    porcellato libero :
1,503 14 Feb 2007 - 1:11    Luca Maddau :
1,502 11 Feb 2007 - 4:27    Max Lawlor :
1,501 11 Feb 2007 - 1:21    Carmelo Catalano :
1,500 10 Feb 2007 - 1:04    Nicolas cavallari :
1,499 8 Feb 2007 - 23:50    Tim Markoski : Without OpenGL, I will NEVER purchase Vista.
1,498 8 Feb 2007 - 5:24    Isidoro Martins : save opengl we need it more then directx
1,497 8 Feb 2007 - 4:55    gigi spedale :
1,496 8 Feb 2007 - 0:34    Sean : OpenGL FTW
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