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  The hardware companies, seeking a competitive advantage for their own products, would threaten to support and promote OpenGL to game developers because the OpenGL driver model supported capability bits that enabled them to create features for their hardware that nobody else supported. It was common (and still is) for the hardware OEM’s to pay game developers to adopt features of their hardware unique to their products but incompatible with the installed base of gaming hardware, forcing consumers to constantly upgrade their graphics cards to play the latest PC games. Game developers alternately hated capability bits because of their complexity and incompatibilities but wanted to take the marketing dollars from the hardware OEM’s to support “non-standard” 3D features.

  Overall I viewed this dynamic as destructive to a healthy PC gaming economy and advocated resisting the trend regardless of what the OpenGL people or OEM’s wanted. I believed that creating a stable consistent consumer market for PC games was more important than appeasing the hardware OEM’s. As such as I was a strong advocate of the relatively rigid vertical Direct3D pipeline and a proponent of only introducing API features that we expected to become universal over time. I freely confess that this view implied significant constraints on innovation in other areas and a placed a high burden of market prescience on the Direct3D team. [link]

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