On Thursday 17 November 2005 13:53, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
What do others think about the place of closed source, proprietary software running on Linux?
No doubt the stuff of endless flamewars, but that gets into mixing politics and OS's, something I try to stay away from. :) We use a number of closed-source products on Linux. As the mighty SGI sank into the sunset, another platform was needed for those of us in the visual FX biz - and Linux was an obvious choice. Still is - more and more products are being porting to Linux, including a recent announcement from Discreet about their Flame compositing system being ported. I have little doubt Inferno will follow. We run a number of proprietary packages alongside all the great OS products out there. I see no problem with that. If there was an OS product that did as well for any given product, I'd use it in a heartbeat. Cheers, J.C. -- John Coldrick www.axyzfx.com Axyz Animation 416-504-0425 425 Adelaide St W Toronto, ON Canada jc@axyzfx.com M5V 1S4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful -- Frederick Locker-Lampson