http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/ 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. Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:1:41 CDT en-us 3 http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4832034 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4679977 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST As an opengl developer on windows i'm not amused with this. I'm allmost forced to do my development on linux or port my stuff over to directx which i'm not wanting to do http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4643504 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Microsoft Inc is starting to act more like Apple Inc. Is Linux now the only OS that allows software from non-Inc to run on their OS?! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4639606 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. I went out and bought Windows Vista, Now I lost a Favorite Game. Doom 3 and Doom 3 res. of evil. Now that I can't play the game, I'm forced to watch the movie..lol. Please make it compatable with Vista. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4514565 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4480219 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4465878 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4403425 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4401330 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4377883 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4352105 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Indeed. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4331639 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4220588 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4187230 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig4011436 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. I can't play my second life! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig3974600 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I installed Vista on my machine, and i noticed that my system now has no OpenGL API support, the version went back to opengl 1.1 with only 2 expensions!!I tried also to chenge videocard but without results. I really need opengl for my work. This is a very stupid thing by microsoft. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig3973920 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST 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. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig3971021 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig3889962 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista/#sig3877139 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST name is this