This really misses the point -- and adds little to the conversation, to boot. OpenGL ES isn't OpenGL, wasn't ever intended to be OpenGL, and will never be Open

This really misses the point -- and adds little to the conversation, to boot. OpenGL ES isn't OpenGL, wasn't ever intended to be OpenGL, and will never be OpenGL. Any reasons or arguments for a lack of "compatibility" are pointless for exactly that reason. If you want to write an OpenGL->GLES translation layer, you're welcome to, but it's more like writing a layer to convert D3D calls to OpenGL than OpenGL 1.1 to OpenGL 2.0. (Disclaimer: I'm involved in Khronos for WebGL standardization, but only recently)