Linux goes to Hollywood

j2brown writes: " Yahoo! News has this little article about IBM taking Linux to Hollywood. " It's not a very in-depth article, but it is interesting that Big Blue is saying that Hollywood will be moving their rendering stuffs to Linux in the next 12 to 18 months. Wonder how SGI feels about that.

Comments

Re:And this is good?

[karmawarrior]

No, it's not the same Hollywood. The one's against DVDs under linux are the MPAA. The one's who are going to/might use linux are the backend movie production people,

And the MPAA works for whom? And the backend movie production people work for whom? And since when did "merely being an employee" of some group make you not part of that group?

Of course it's the same f---ing Hollywood! You're not the only person engaging in this sophestry but that doesn't make it any less bizarre.

On the contrary, I'd love to see Linux help the movie industry out. Because if they do, then the movie industry might actually see how great linux is and be much more kind to us (the linux community) in general. The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make friends with him, not through force and violence.

Nobody's suggesting force and violence. That doesn't mean we should help them out. This is providing something for nothing in return - indeed, it's going to the very extreme, taking the schoolyard bully who's just given you a bloody nose and offering to clean his shoes for him.

Also please try to keep in mind that Hollywood and the movie industry contains two types of people, lawyers, and not lawyers. So please just be mad at the MPAA, not whole damn industry.

The MPAA is an organisation that represents movie publishers, which in turn represents the interests of producers and other people involved in the movie making chain. It is, like it or not, the legitimate voice of Hollywood. There are many individuals in Hollywood, some of whom may agree with us, some of whom wont, but as an entity, it's a slimy outfit that speaks with one voice: Let those who'd wish to do things other than the way we demand be subject to the most extreme abuses. Thanks to the laws the MPAA has been instrumental in proposing, we've seen people extradited, others imprisoned, others still pending imprisonment, and others silenced through threats of imprisonment. And for what purpose? To prevent someone from copying a movie, regardless of intent, whether it's to distribute across the world, or to copy from a DVD to a computer screen on an operating system nobody has a licence for.

This is a pretty extremist and evil group. And you want us to go to bed with them. What a sick and twisted world.

Re:Great!

[FaRuvius]

You will never see powerful 3D apps that are open source. There is too much money in the development, plus the licensing of codecs would make the most useful parts inaccessible.

If you want one, write it yourself. Oh you can't?
Well theres your answer.