<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2010 13:37, Russ Kinter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pyth7@verizon.net" target="_blank">pyth7@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Chris Thorne
[mailto:<a href="mailto:dragonmagi@gmail.com" target="_blank">dragonmagi@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, May 02, 2010 8:35 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Christoph Valentin<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> Russ Kinter;
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [X3D-Public]
multiuser mode (newbie question)</div></font><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">There appeared to be little will among the Browser vendors to
collectively agree on and work on a standardised sensor node and protocol. It
may also be that my expectations for real progress to an agreed standard in a 2
year time frame was unrealistic. Anyway, status quo seems a little better but
nowhere near [my] original target, and I have moved on.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font size="3" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">[Russ Kinter] But at the end of the day what remains
of the VRML/X3D community now has an open-source Node standard that really isn’t
open-source.</span></font></i></b></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>It is true there are no open source implementations of the proposed connection and network sensor nodes. but the nodes are not part of the standard as you seem to suggest.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font size="3" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Do you really believe that the two biggest and
strongest players BSContact and Octaga with their own protocols are going play
nice and help establish one protocol in the future?</span></font></i></b></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>I had thought it was to everyones advantage, including that of the Browser vendors..</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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so?</span></font></i></b></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>To my thinking: the same motivation one would have to support openGL : increased portability and interoperability makes business sense to me. </div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font size="3" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Maybe it is a way to force customers who use their
MU servers to buy the new version, because the latest versions of the clients won’t
handle the old protocol?</span></font></i></b></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>yes - that is a kind of vendor lockin than many companies go for. That is their business decision and I respect that, tho I don't particularly like it. </div>
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brand/format loyalty.</span></font></i></b></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>:) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue">
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