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To: wbmw who wrote (241416)	9/28/2007 10:44:06 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"You don't seriously believe that this is a bad thing, do you...?" He doesn't. In fact, I gather he is a big supporter of such. The problem is that Mcrosoft doesn't really provide them. Just a note for the sarcasm impaired.

To: wbmw who wrote (241416)	9/29/2007 12:12:59 AM
From: fastpathguru	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Seriously, it's too bad that monopolies are the only way standards ever get created. We should all thank, for instance, MS, for creating such an open platform and transparent APIs, protocols, and document formats. You don't seriously believe that this is a bad thing, do you...? Remember the days before DirectX, for example? Yeah, Dos games under various incompatible loader routines without a single driver model was paradise. (just kidding) Ah, yes, DirectX... An API designed to lock the PC gaming industry in to the Windows platform. See, with DirectX, MS could invest money in companies to develop games that could only run on Windows. If they invested in OpenGL-based game development, other platforms could benefit... Yup. Great standard... Fortunately, not everyone fell for it. Carmack/Id, for instance, kept enough attention on OGL that it wouldn't be developmentally starved. Re: DAMN AMD and their multiple small and incompatible standards! Someone should teach them a lesson... I support the standards that AMD drives, or at least tries to drive. Even the ones that failed were successful in getting the larger companies to respond with something better. AMD has a limited hit rate in getting ecosystems built in the industry, but if they spearhead a project that directly causes Intel to respond with something better (like the the way Hypertransport spurred development of PCI-Express), then I'm all for it. I remember Intel fiddling with high speed serial links in 1998, but very little came of it until AMD started garnering support for HTT. A few months later, Intel had a PCI-Express spec ready for PCI-SIG. Thanks, AMD! PCI-E better than HTT? You sure? What is for sure, it's entire raison d'etre was to deny AMD the opportunity to drive a central PC platform standard; there was no other reason for it... fpg