Lucas Digital Releases OpenEXR Format

frankie writes "Although George Lucas may have gone over to the dark side, at least some of his staff prefer Freedom and light. ILM has released OpenEXR, a graphics file format and related utilities, under a BSD-style license. Among other things, it supports the same 16 bit format used by Nvidia CG and the Geforce FX. OpenEXR runs on Linux, Jaguar, and Irix; other platforms are likely to work with a little help from the community."

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[Mighty_Joe_Stalin]

Hello my friends! The Communist Revolution is upon us and it takes shape in the form of my penis. Go ahead and have a gander at it. Darth Vader rules. Fuck you guys.

Right market? Maybe.

[Amsterdam Vallon]

Nice, it's wonderful to see that Lucas and his company have read up on, understood, and embraced the Open Source market. For those who don't remember, they pretty much set the gold standard in the movie industry, and we still live with the benefits today. But while this sounds like a good idea at first for us geeks, I have to wonder about some of the choices made in the design of this new format.

Linux is specifically written for the desktop market these days anyway, which is why Lucasfilm probably decided to go cross-platform on us.

It's a good idea, don't get me wrong. But, I'd like to see them take a more sensible approach in the future and consider which platform dominates home users and not which feels best in their hearts.

Their hearts will heal with more money, not with little to no business from Linux users, all of whom tend to spend less than $10 a year on computer software.

People, don't go along with this

[Amsterdam Vallon]

This is, hands down, the worst exploitation of labor and intelligence I may ever see.

Lucasfilm needs to write a lot of code and make some serious software in the very near future, so they make what they're tricking us into thinking is a grand gesture. What many of you don't realize, and what I didn't at first realize, is that this is a blatant ploy at extorting labor out of us by creating Open Source filters and conversion utilities which will then, upon completion and after some testing, be renamed as Lucasfilm software programs and then used to help George Lucas buy a few more houses and make a few more crappy movies.

It's bad enough that Lucas has taken a back seat to Spielberg in terms of film earnings and film quality, but now that he's using his own fans for free labor, I don't think I'll bother lining his pockets with more cash after a disrespectful act such as this.

I'm appalled and outraged, and I hope you all heed my warning.

CHECK THIS SHIT OUT! IT'S A WEBSITE FOR FUCKUPS!

[Anonymous Coward]

Lucas Digital Releases OpenEXR Format
Posted by chrisd on Wednesday January 22, @04:08PM
from the no-oscars-till-2005 dept.
frankie writes "Although George Lucas may have gone over to the dark side, at least some of his staff prefer Freedom and light. ILM has released OpenEXR, a graphics file format and related utilities, under a BSD-style license. Among other things, it supports the same 16 bit format used by Nvidia CG and the Geforce FX. OpenEXR runs on Linux, Jaguar, and Irix; other platforms are likely to work with a little help from the community."

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Developers: Bitstream To Donate 10 Fonts To Free Software World
Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 22, @03:38PM
from the some-gnus-is-good-gnus dept.
21mhz writes "Posted on FootNotes: The GNOME Foundation and Bitstream Inc. announce long-term agreement to bring high quality fonts to Free Software. Ten fonts will be released for use under a special open license agreement, giving advanced font capabilities to all free and open source software developers and users. Read the full press release for more details." Modification and re-release (under a different name) is explicitly allowed, too.

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Your Rights Online: Congress To Consider Age Limits On Violent Games
Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 22, @02:46PM
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labrat1123 writes "It looks like Congress is getting ready to revisit the 'Protect Children from Video Game Sex and Violence Act.' Cliff Notes version: It would become a federal crime to sell or rent a violent video game to anyone under 18. Entire article available on CNN." Note that this is not a law; it's a bill being readied for reintroduction after its original version was killed last session.

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pitr256 writes "So it seems the SCO Group has decided to hire infamous Anti-Microsoft lawyer David Boies after all. This comes upon reversal of the SCO Group statement according to Chief Executive Darl McBride of having not engaged Mr. Boies to take legal action against our fellow Linux vendors. Now, CNet News is reporting that not only is SCO Group investigating the Linux vendors but that it is also going to investigate Windows, Mac OS X, and the BSD derivatives. So if your technology can't win on price and performance, break out the lawyers and sue everyone. Does anyone else see this as the end of SCO (Caldera) like I do? I certainly will never use anything from them ever again."

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New PPC/Linux PDA Reference Design From IBM
Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 22, @01:03PM
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kinema writes "It looks like IBM has released a new Linux/PowerPC based PDA reference design called e-LAP ("embedded Linux application platform"). It features a PowerPC 405LP, 30MB SDRAM, 32MB NOR Flash, 64MB Disk-On-Chip Flash, 240 x 320 color LCD, Stereo speakers, Microphone, USB (both host and client ports), a 3000 gate Xilinx FPGA, SDIO slot and last but not least a TCPA security chip. I for one would love to see some good PowerPC based PDAs on the market."

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Developers: Guildhall at SMU Q&A
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An anonymous submitter wrote in about this interview with the director of the Guildhall game development program. Slashdot mentioned it earlier.

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Most Slashdot readers aren't coming to the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York this week. If you're not coming, but you have a question you'd like to ask one of the exhibitors, please post it here. I promise to ask 10 of the highest-moderated exhibitor questions on your behalf, and I'll do my best to ask more than 10, time permitting. If you have a question for anyone who is holding a conference session or tutorial Thursday or Friday, please feel free to post it, too. I will try to ask speakers at least a few questions, but that's chancier than getting hold of exhibitors (who are in booths where they're easy to find), so no promises. One question per post, please. Hopefully, I'll have time to type up the answers over the weekend and post them Monday or Tuesday.

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Microsoft Loses Showdown in Houston
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An anonymous reader writes "It seems the city of Houston has decided against using Microsoft software. It really is amazing how much it costs to use (and maintain) software. I can't help but wonder if this will become a trend." Turns out they decided on the relativly unknown SimDesk suite, which has nothing to do with The Sims, sadly. Many, many posts about this. In additional news seldo writes "There's an interesting interview on News.Com with Peter Houston. He discusses Microsoft's changing attitude in competing with Linux -- no longer calling it a "cancer" but instead promoting the advantages of Windows."

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Ford Shows Off Recyclable Car
Posted by michael on Wednesday January 22, @09:59AM
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Opspin writes "MBDC (who wrote the book Cradle to Cradle) write in their January Newsletter about a Ford Concept Car that includes Bluetooth technology as well as Cradle-to-Cradle design strategies. Read the MBDC press release, and the Ford Motor Company press release."

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FT on Europe's Open Source Option
Posted by michael on Wednesday January 22, @09:10AM
from the good-to-have-options dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "The Financial Times offers a very interesting read about Linux, its possibilities for business, and its threat to Microsoft. Also a second article about "Europe's open-source option"."

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Helix Server Source Released
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Rob Lanphier writes "RealNetworks just released the Helix DNA Server source code, the main engine powering the RealNetworks' Helix Universal Server (nee RealServer). Additionally, the RealNetworks' Public Source License (RPSL) just became approved as an Open Source Initiative (OSI) certified license. Speaking of which, the Helix DNA Server is available under RPSL (which wasn't originally our stated intention). Ask questions via IRC during our live webcast at 11am PST (19:00 GMT) or just read the press release."

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U.S. Air Force Developing Microwave Weapon
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Science: Cloned Cat Not a 'Carbon Copy'
Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 22, @04:54AM
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bbsguru writes "When Texas A&M researchers announced the first Cloned Kitty about a year ago, everyone expected to see a Multiplicity-style pair of cats by now. Not so! The clone is genetically identical, but in many other ways totally a different cat. This CNN Story has details."

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Wikipedia Reaches 100,000th Article
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An anonymous reader writes "'Wikipedia, a community-built multilingual encyclopedia, is announcing that the English edition of the project has reached a milestone of 100,000 articles in development. In addition, the project itself has celebrated its two-year anniversary on January 15. But not just the English version has grown impressively: More than 37,000 articles are now being worked on in the non-English editions of Wikipedia.' Read the press release for more information or visit the website to enlighten yourself! It's great to see that this interactive project works; at least I don't have to boot into Windows to use Encarta anymore!"

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Apache: Apache 2.0.44 Released
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