[ILUG] dot.what..[ot]

[David Murphy]

Quoting <00f201bfc4b9$d222e7c0$a5bf01c1 at high>
by Shane Dempsey <sdempsey at tssg.wit.ie>:

> The prop department will do whatever the techies tell them. When
> people don't know what they're talking about they're easily led.
> Unless it's a product placement of course. If a product is visible
> enough then it's always likely to be placed. That's why it's called
> the movie 'business'.

Yes, it is a business, so it's pointless spending money on an Ultra 10
or a Powerbook purely for realism when you can buy an old 386 desktop
or 286 notebook and achieve the same look.

> My James Cameron example was just pointing out that there are some
> producers / directors who probably appreciate that one OS might give
> some advantage over another and they might just use that OS on
> machines within their films.

Again, when or where have you heard him quoted as saying anything like
this? I haven't seen anything to refute my assumption that he just
bought the services of the SFX company, not caring about what
equipment they used to deliver the service.

> I was just providing an example , nothing more than that.

An example of how Free OS propaganda can turn out to be as accurate as
Commercial OS propaganda.

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