[NTLUG:Discuss] Cool Article

[Steve Baker]

WILLIAM PEARSON wrote:

> If anyone reads the Wall Street Journal check out page B5. It talks about
> how Hollywood is going Linux. Industrial Light and Magic was switching
> their systems from SGI to NT but switched it in midstream to Linux. The
> movie 'Shrek' was created completely on Linux based Systems.

> Titanic's water scenes where the
> doomed boat was going through the water was done on Linux systems.

Yep - 'Titanic' had all of it's ocean rendering done on 50 Alpha's
running Linux (although the ship itself and the virtual 'extras' were done
on SGI machines) - and the guy who put that Alpha system together was Daryll Strauss
who (not entirely coincidentally) was the guy who got the first 3D graphics
cards working under Linux - Daryll now (IIRC) works for V.A.Linux doing work
on the Mesa/DRI integration with Xfree.

You can see that the spin-offs from these kinds of commercial exploitation
of Linux are a good part of the driving force in OpenSource.

Now - if only I could afford the price of a copy of Maya for Linux.
<sigh>

> My only problem with the article, like many articles dealing with Linux. It
> credits the whole of the Free Software/Open Source movement upon Linus
> Torvalds. Which is far from the truth, he played a key part, but not the
> only part. Kinda like Bill Gates taking credit for the dropping costs of
> computers, which is ludicrous.

Yep.  That's annoying.

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