There is a difference between running a renderfarm with BSD and actually running the software used to CREATE the effects on BSD. Manex didn't use FreeBSD as the operating system to make these effects (as their software didn't run on it, they used Maya (from Alias | Wavefront) to do them (which only runs on Irix and NT), along with some proprietary stuff for the stop/motion time-lapse sequences.
There's plenty of advantages for average users. For example, I downloaded an mp3 player for my mac. It had a slight bug, making it to allocate too little ram for mp3 playback, causing skips. I reported this, then waited 6 months until the writer fixed the problem.
On the other hand, I downloaded an ftp client for linux. It had some bugs also, which were reported to the proper newsgroups by undoubtedly many other users. In a matter of days, some anonymous user had fixed the problems.
Advantages of OSS for the average joe? I see plenty.
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There is a difference between running a renderfarm with BSD and actually running the software used to CREATE the effects on BSD. Manex didn't use FreeBSD as the operating system to make these effects (as their software didn't run on it, they used Maya (from Alias | Wavefront) to do them (which only runs on Irix and NT), along with some proprietary stuff for the stop/motion time-lapse sequences.
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There's plenty of advantages for average users. For example, I downloaded an mp3 player for my mac. It had a slight bug, making it to allocate too little ram for mp3 playback, causing skips. I reported this, then waited 6 months until the writer fixed the problem.
On the other hand, I downloaded an ftp client for linux. It had some bugs also, which were reported to the proper newsgroups by undoubtedly many other users. In a matter of days, some anonymous user had fixed the problems.
Advantages of OSS for the average joe? I see plenty.