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I fully agree with that Alan!
This wider support for Microsoft technology might just ease the life of
people who chose to use Microsoft products early on. Like Softimage for
example :-)
BTW, and completely unrelated, there's an alpha version of a library
that claims to implement directX10 support for XP, Linux and OSX, on
http://alkyproject.blogspot.com/
Now, back to the original question... learning the XSI API will take you more time than learning a specific language syntax, especially if you know already about software development. But I don't think there is any school out there that will teach you that! not even books... You should take some time off and read the SDK Guides chm, and try JScript and Python examples.
Cheers,
Aloys
On 5/8/07, Alan Jones <
skyphyr(at)gmail.com> wrote:Hi Aloys,
> That said, they might support their runtime on linux soon... we'll see!
While the mono crew have already announced they'll be supporting it
there's no way I'd ever recommend going with it (especially on linux).
My guess is that Microsoft's plan is to have their technologies
supported on linux - by someone else is even better for them.
Encourage people to uptake them and invest a significant amount of
their infrastructure in these "free" technologies.
Remember all this time there are no patent guarantees for any of this
- not even time limited ones for Suse customers. So they'll be wide
open to extort... err I mean "license" their patents to you at
whatever they decide is an acceptable rate. Which will probably be
just under what it would cost to reimplement with truly free
technologies.
Cheers,
Alan.
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