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This implies that they could not have pushed OpenGL to be less of a mess. Feels bad faith to argue, when you consider how bad all drivers were back then.

>>taeric+(OP)
Everybody wanted this. There was even an attempt at this, called "Long's Peak", that was ultimately voted down by the OpenGL committee after a long development road. Nobody else needed to sabotage OpenGL, Khronos was more than happy to do it themselves.

>>Jasper+zA
> Khronos was more than happy to do it themselves.

I was involved in a few of those committees, and sadly I have to agree.

The reason Khronos is often so slow to adopt features is because how hard it is for a group of competitors to agree on something. Everybody has an incentive to make the standard follow their hardware.

A notable exception to this was the OpenCL committee, which was effectively strongarmed by Apple. Everybody wanted Apple's business, so nobody offered much resistance to what Apple wanted.