Microsoft Adds An EGL Implementation To Mesa For Windows

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Microsoft Adds An EGL Implementation To Mesa For Windows

While Microsoft has long had WGL as an API analogous to EGL for residing between OpenGL and the Windows interfaces, Microsoft has now wired up an EGL implementation for Mesa that works on Windows...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsoft-Mesa-EGL-Windows

[tildearrow]

Embrace

Of course Microsoft adding stuff just for the benefit of their own operating system and not Linux...

[schmidtbag]

Embrace

I think this is more of the extend stage.

[RahulSundaram]

Embrace

Of course Microsoft adding stuff just for their own benefit...

Companies always do things that benefit them. They are commercial entities obviously. The fact that some of it may benefit others is a side effect of the licensing, not the intended target of the work. Microsoft is really no different from any other entity here. They do routinely contribute to general open source code as well at this point, plenty of examples of that.

[tildearrow]

I think this is more of the extend stage.

Extend is when you add incompatible features (like Microsoft specific extensions that only work on Windows). This is embracing an standard (EGL)

[indepe]

Companies always do things that benefit them.

Not all always. And that's an important distinction.

[RahulSundaram]

Not all always. And that's an important distinction.

Which ones are doing things that don't benefit them? What other motivation is there?

[tildearrow]

Which ones are doing things that don't benefit them? What other motivation is there?

Purism (a social purpose company).

[indepe]

Which ones are doing things that don't benefit them? What other motivation is there?

So nice of you to frame that as a question...

[RahulSundaram]

Purism (a social purpose company).

They still do things that benefit them. Just have additional flexibility so they don't have to exclusively profit motivated. If not, they would be a non-profit instead.