Date:  Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:56:29 -0400
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: SciTech Software Inc. to Open Source ...

From: tamatgmx.de (Timo Maier) 

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SciTech Software Inc. to Open Source Its Proprietary Device Driver
Architecture

    * SciTech Software Inc confirms Open Source plans, and offers two
licenses to accommodate the needs of developers and vendors.

Chico, Calif., August 27, 2002 -- SciTech Software, Inc. today announced
the intention to release the bulk of its proprietary device driver
development tools under a new dual license structure. SciTech has selected
the GNU General Public License (GPL) license to handle the needs of Open
Source developers along with a commercial software license for those
seeking to offer non-GPL solutions. By providing an Open Source license to
its powerful development tools SciTech is seeking to gain wider acceptance
of its unique SciTech SNAP device driver architecture. To date companies
such as IBM, and ATI have benefited from the binary compatibility that the
SciTech SNAP architecture provides. With this latest announcement embedded
and industrial developers will have the ability to utilize the same
architecture to further their own efforts.

Over the years Ive been asked to put up or shut up by some powerful
players in the Open Source community regarding this architecture; well I
guess the time has come to put up, said Kendall Bennett, founder/CEO of
SciTech Software Inc., adding the alternate OS community has suffered
long enough through the lack of a solid binary compatible device driver
architecture

SciTechs commercially available graphics driver pack, SciTech SNAP
Graphics, currently supports nearly 180 graphics chip sets on multiple
OSes with full 2D acceleration. Access to all existing SciTech SNAP
drivers will remain available under SciTechs commercial license and will
not be Open Sourced due to existing NDAs with chip vendors. However,
anyone choosing to utilize the SciTech SNAP development tools will have
the ability to study GPL samples of SciTech SNAP drivers in the DDK. The
dual license will allow developers the ability to quickly tap into this
fully plug-and-play support base with little effort.

We see this as an important step for the alternate OS space, said Andrew
Bloo, Director of Sales and Marketing for SciTech Software Inc. for the
first time OS vendors that service emerging markets get a true alternative
to the aging X11 driver model. SciTech SNAP provides complete 2D
acceleration, plug-and-play and a support base equal to anything available
regardless of OS including Windows.

By providing application developers, hardware and OS vendors the ability
to fully develop solutions free of charge, SciTech is providing real value
to emerging markets. Should developers decide to ship drivers and or
applications developed with SciTechs tools they can then decide to
release their source code under the terms of the GPL or easily change
their license to the commercial version and protect their proprietary
code.

About SciTech SciTech Software, Inc. is a leading supplier of PC graphics
utilities, drivers, and tools for the embedded, industrial and enterprise
markets. SciTechs products allow software developers to achieve maximum
performance from their systems graphics hardware. SciTechs products
include, SciTech SNAP Graphics, a fully accelerated binary compatible
graphic device driver solution, SciTech GLDirect, an OpenGL to Direct3D
driver and SciTech MGL, an Open Source, professional graphics library used
to develop some of todays most popular software programs. SciTech
products support the Windows, Linux, OS/2, DOS, QNX, and SMX operating
systems. Many major software companies and hardware companies license
portions of SciTechs technology for incorporation in their products.
SciTech is privately held and the company's web address is
http://www.scitechsoft.com

                           

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