[ILUG] dot.what..[ot]

[David Murphy]

Quoting <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005231610110.3210-100000 at rossi.itg.ie>
by Paul Jakma <paulj at itg.ie>:

> > > i've seen that story before, and i also remember it being
> > > debunked. 

> > Do you remember a URL?

> the original SSC article about Titanic special fx rendering, by
> Daryll Strauss:

> http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue46/2494.html

> Of course Grant Boucher, the guy who debunked Linux at Digital
> Domain, went and setup his own special fx company a little while
> later (stationx). So one wonders about the politics of things.

> Stationx also sell Alpha NT rendering software (spider).. so being
> supportive of Linux/Alpha might not have been in Grant's commercial
> interests.

If Linux is superior, why would they not develop their product on
Linux? Perhaps because they had experienced better stability on NT?

> So:

> we have a confirmed and verified article about Linux/Titanic/Digital
> Domain by Daryll Strauss (admittedly a linux fan) which was postive
> about linux.

Does it not seem likely to you that this Daryll Strauss (admittedly a
linux fan) might be one of the people referred to in the usenet
article - "The choice of linux for the other farm was merely a
convenience for two programmers (the ones who wrote the article), who
could have easily ported command-line code to NT as well as Linux" it
does to me. Moreover, the Linux Journal has a commercial interest in
people believing Linux is superior to NT - I wouldn't trust the LJ any
less or any more than any other publication or organisation.

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