Stolen from OpenGL ng

From: WTH (spamsucks_at_Ih8it.com)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 22:04:10 -0400

This has fantastic implications for game development on Linux, note the
phrase "open game development platform" ;)

    WTH

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Sony will have Open GL and a new API, called Collada, for PlayStation
3 development, to counter Microsoft's new API, XNA, for Xbox2 and PC
development.

info on the new Collada API that Sony is endorsing can be found here:

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/30/1837253&tid=212&tid=152&tid=211

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Sony Endorsing Open Graphics Format For PS3

Posted by simoniker on Friday July 30, @03:58PM

News for nerds writes "At the tech talk as part of the forthcoming
SIGGRAPH 2004 conference on August 11th, an open graphics file format
for the interactive 3D [videogame] industry called COLLADA will be
unveiled by Sony Computer Entertainment. COLLADA is supported by major
3D toolchain companies including Alias, Criterion, Discreet, Emdigo,
Novodex, Softimage and Vicarious Visions. If you combine this with the
recent news that Sony has joined Khronos Group to support OpenGL/ES,
OpenMAX, OpenVG and OpenML, it seems evident that Sony is quietly
fighting back against the loudly trumpeted Microsoft XNA (/. coverage)
with its plan of an open game development platform."