Quoting: JanOh, boy. Are you kidding? macOS -- unlike iOS -- is an open platform just like Linux.

In many ways it's not. Why don't Nvidia and AMD release proper graphics drivers for MacOS? They could address the problem of lacking Vulkan and stalled OpenGL there easily. Apple doesn't let them. So it's far from open (I'm not even talking about FOSS, I'm talking about some flexibility). In the graphics sense, Windows is actually way more open than MacOS.

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Quoting: JanApple is not abandoning the Mac at all.

They have just announced the iMac Pro with Xeon CPUs, external GPU support, Metal 2 and a new high-end Mac Pro coming in 2018/2019 along with new Cinema 5K Displays.

After stalling for how long? Dropping in some update after years of doing nothing is not called "not abandoning". Also, they clearly don't care about their own users and developers, otherwise they would have updated their OpenGL to latest versions. I.e. good luck trying to run something like The Witcher 3 in Wine on MacOS - it won't work, because OpenGL is stuck there at around 4.1. For all intents and purposes, Linux is much better for gaming.

Quoting: LeopardMacOS sales are staying high because most of the people are thinking having an Apple branded system is a privelege. So suddenly MacOS being a status sign for them and that is keeping them on the ecosystem : Ego.

Yes, that makes more sense. Technically, MacOS is becoming trash, and Apple simply decided to address complaints of abandonment, rather than pushing it forward. But people use it out of inertia.

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Nice. As you can see, it's way higher than so called Steam survey, which only highlights, that the later is pretty useless. It all depends on the game, and I'd say on developers and their engagement with Linux community. I'd be also interested in some numbers from inXile and Obsidian, who like Beamdog release cross platform from day one.

Also, I'm somewhat surprised that MacOS sales stay high, despite bitrot of the system, and Apple basically abandoning their own desktop.

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I missed this part (pretty nice of them to mention Mesa):

"OpenGL 4.6 will be the first OpenGL release where conformant open source implementations based on the Mesa project will be deliverable in a reasonable timeframe after release. The open sourcing of the OpenGL conformance test suite and ongoing work between Khronos and X.org will also allow for non-vendor led open source implementations to achieve conformance in the near future," said David Airlie, senior principal engineer at Red Hat, and developer on Mesa/X.org projects.

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That Nvidia patent lists these dates:

Publication date Jul 22, 1997
Filing date Apr 25, 1995
Priority date Apr 25, 1995

I think the term is 20 years since the filing date (that would be Apr 25, 2015). But now it's even 20 since publication date too. I suppose for some weird reason they were counting it from the publication date, and it expired just last month. So Mesa can implement it now without a problem.

If I understand correctly, Khronos only includes patent-free extensions in the versioned OpenGL specification.

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See https://www.khronos.org/files/ip-disclosures/opengl/ [External Link]

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Quoting: CheesenessAh ha! That explains that then. Thanks for sharing - I don't think I'd have spotted that thread otherwise.

In this context, readme.txt which was probably drafted from Day of The Tentacle remastered, isn't exactly correct:

If when running the GOG installer, you encounter an error along the lines of:

/bin/sh: 0: Can't open ./gog_full_throttle_remastered_x.x.x.x.sh

Please try invoking the GOG installer via bash in the following manner:

bash ./gog_full_throttle_remastered_x.x.x.x.sh

I don't think it's important though :)

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Quoting: CheesenessAaand it's up on GOG [External Link] now too \o/

The reason why GOG didn't make an installer, and used simple tarball [External Link].

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Quoting: sr_ls_boyThis suggest the answer is no. Nivida owns the patent.

https://www.google.com/patents/US5651104 [External Link]

Another patent own by Intel lapsed in December.

https://www.google.com/patents/US6816167 [External Link]

How is it the newer patent expired before the older one?

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GL_ARB_texture_filter_anisotropic

Previously IP encumbered? Is it now free?

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