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. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
