__/ [ arachnid ] on Wednesday 04 October 2006 01:00 \__
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:14:13 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> The Linux Motion Picture Pipeline
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>> | Within the industry the assembly line of hardware and software used
>> | for making movies is called a studio pipeline. Linux is preferred
>> | because it scales well and is compatible with tens of millions of lines
>> | of unix code the studios have developed internally over the years. All
>> | the large studios use Linux as their primary OS for desktops and server
>> | renderfarms.
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>> http://linuxmovies.org/software.html
>>
>> This is not new, but I only found it now. It has been obvious to most for
>> quite a while, too.
>
> Maybe the movie industry likes Linux so much because it isn't encumbered
> with all that DRM?
Well, production!=distribution. Either way, this could indeed be a love/hate
relationship. Look how they sues DVD Jon for doing something as innocent as
making DVD's playable on Open Source platforms (notable GNU/Linux).
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