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Old 26th March 2011
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Originally Posted by TerryP View Post
Considering that you can get OpenGL 3.3 off a decent r600 card and the most recent specification is for OpenGL 4.1, I think caring about any of that is a tad out moded from a practical perspective.
Considering there are a number of applications that have improved functionality when GLSL 1.2 is available, I (personally) wouldn't consider caring about the presence of OpenGL 2.1 outmoded.

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The Open Source world lags much to far behind on this.
Agreed, but it's nice to have an open source option available to users who don't need the latest whiz-bang features available only via proprietary drivers.

Adam
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