Microsoft Joins The Open 3D Foundation For Advancing Open-Source 3D Development

[jayrulez]

I also guess this is to funnel DirectX into OpenSource 3D Projects like game engines etc. On top it looks generous and of course MS shills and shenanigans will advertise it and use it as "look MS is OpenSource friendly"/"MS has changed" ...

O3DE already supported DX without Microsoft's involvement (https://github.com/o3de/o3de/tree/de.../Atom/RHI/DX12). Also, if you're a serious game developer then you will care more about Windows and DX since that's where they majority of PC gamers are.

[tildearrow]

purism is still a very successful company making good money, they are hardly selling their products at cost. ofc that doesn't make them any less a great company. but they certainly get benefits from it.

Yep, but at least they don't try hard to tie people to their different ecosystem unlike Microsoft (Windows).

[Quackdoc]

Purism.

purism is still a very successful company making good money, they are hardly selling their products at cost. ofc that doesn't make them any less a great company. but they certainly get benefits from it.

[piotrj3]

This is like a Tobacco company donating money to cancer research...

Not at all. Companies like that join open source staff for same reason they joined AV1 effort - those companies pay so much money for H264/H265/Unreal Engine/Unity, that if they can move something that can compete with them without paying so much, they can still save money.

Tencent is huge gaming company.

Microsoft is pretty deep in games.

Niantic is also getting big at games.

Only Adobe/Huawei i don't quite understand why they would support it.

[tildearrow]

What companies are open source friendly without benefit?
The Linux kernel itself is a commercial bottomless gold mine.

Purism.

[cl333r]

Any news agency? Then you got three choices:

1. You travel to every country to interview politicians, citizens as well as do your own journalistic digging
2. You only read your Twitter feed, reddit comments, 4chan and other "reliable" sources that are not a news agency
3. You barely know anything about the state of the world

Dead wrong. There's telegram accounts and other sources.

[johanb]

I barely read RT or any news agency because they're all propaganda, though RT is one that lies the least.

Any news agency? Then you got three choices:

1. You travel to every country to interview politicians, citizens as well as do your own journalistic digging
2. You only read your Twitter feed, reddit comments, 4chan and other "reliable" sources that are not a news agency
3. You barely know anything about the state of the world

[ClosedSource]

Microsoft is open-source friendly but only when it benefits... Microsoft.
It's like quicksand.

What companies are open source friendly without benefit?
The Linux kernel itself is a commercial bottomless gold mine.

[Vistaus]

Microsoft is open-source friendly but only when it benefits... Microsoft.
It's like quicksand.

No way! A company trying to benefit themselves? That's so uncommon!!!!!!!!

[cl333r]

Still beats that Russia Today you consume all day...

I barely read RT or any news agency because they're all propaganda, though RT is one that lies the least.