Unless the Microsoft monopoly is stopped somehow, software development will continue to be severely degraded. OpenGL is and has been the standard for 3D graphics, and deserves to be treated with better respect than what Vista is currently giving it.
I support this petition because OPENGL is better than DirectX, is ease-to-use (i'm a developer), it's multi-platform. I love it. DON'T KILL IT, MOTHERFUCKER MICROSOFT DEVELOPERS!
I support this petition. OpenGL is EXTREMLY easy-to-use, fast, STABLE, and cross-platform! OpenGL2.0 with GLSL embeded is the best thing ever happened to the software industry and obstructing it is just the proof of its worth! M$ should find a way to benefit from OpenGL instead of pushing it away... PS3 has GL as official API and porting games from it to Windows platforms is almost impossible... and trust me, there will be TONS of games for PS3.....
This is all about developers and users having a choice. No-one should be forced to use one particular API or language, just because MS wants a few extra dollars (for licensing DirectX to developers). A remarkably childish move, even for Microsoft.