Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] How to decide?

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:23:47PM +0100, Sebastian Gerhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm unsure about Savannah's position on this submission,
> where the maintainer wants to offer an Direct3D (proprietary API)
> backend in addition to an OpenGL renderer.
> https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?9144
> 
> My initial reaction would be to approve, provided that the Direct3D
> renderer doesn't offer more features than the one for OpenGL on
> GNU/Linux.

That sounds good.

In particular it's important for this project to continue making an
effort so that users won't be enticed to use a DX implementation when
there's an OpenGL one, even if the author thinks the former is more
common / convenient / whatever.  He sounded a bit lax there - users
are hurt when they use proprietary software, even if they own
OpenGL-deficient hardware :p

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Sylvain