I always thought this was an interesting story on the history of OpenGL and D3D: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/88055/20932 https://softwareeng

I always thought this was an interesting story on the history of OpenGL and D3D: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/88055/20932 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/88055/20932 It's outside my field and before my time, but it seems more complex than "vendor lock-in for the sake of vendor lock-in".