26 Oct
2006
26 Oct
'06
8:06 a.m.
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 23:15, Philip Tellis wrote:
Sometime Today, jtd assembled some asciibets to say:
Notice how a whole lot of wall street and hollywood types use gnu/linux not out of any love of freedom but merely due to convienence and costs. Is something wrong with that? YES. It is these
and they told you this? The pixar guys that I spoke to told me that they used linux because it was technically superior to any of the alternatives.
Convienence = tech superiority = stability+speed+effeciency+reduced maintanence+upgradibility+customizable... Take your pick.
It wasn't the cost - they were already spending several hundred million dollars on hardware that they would have to throw out as soon as the film was done.
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JTD