Disney Buys Pixar

BlueDjinn writes to tell us that it appears a great deal of speculation over Disney's buyout of Pixar Animation Studios is in fact true. From the article: "[Pixar] is set to meet tomorrow to approve the company's $7bn (£3.9bn) takeover by Disney. The all-share deal will make Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, around $3.5bn and the single largest shareholder in Disney. Jobs created Pixar in 1986 when he paid $10m for the computer animations division of Lucasfilm, owned by Star Wars creator George Lucas."

Comments

Is this the real reason why Apple moved to Intel?

[Goatless]

Don't know if this connection has been made before but if Mac moves to Intel architecture then both Windows and Max OS can implement the same Trusted Computing archicture, can't they? In which case won't the DRM fanatics have caught 99.9% of computer users ensuring a Linux lock-out? Could Disney's interest in Pixar and Jobs' interest in Disney been the real reason to shift hardware platform? Interesting times ahead.

Re:Too much focus on Jobs

[Vexar]

Lasseter is a rip-off artist. What ires me is his "introduction" to the US / Disney release of Castle in the Sky (Laputa), where he talks about his good old friend Miyazaki. Here's a fun task for you: watch Castle in the Sky, then watch John Lasseter's Atlantis. I counted about fifteen overt similarities, ranging from the hero having experience with boilers, wearing crystal necklaces, giant idle robots...

John Lasseter should be put in chains in a dark dungeon of Sleeping Beauty's castle for his crimes of copyright infringement.