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[Cc-bizcom] CGI & Open Source

From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
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Subject: [Cc-bizcom] CGI & Open Source
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:04:00 +0100

Slashdot article on the advantage of Open Source for CGI houses. Even Disney
are dumping traditional animation in favour of CGI at the moment:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/22/1721254

'If your competitors need hair, they'll write hair software, no problem.
Another quote from the Pixar RenderMan user's group, this one by a RenderMan
developer (paraphrased): "this is based on the subsurface scattering papers
from a couple years ago. Everybody does this, based on those papers." Nope, I
don't see strategic advantage there: I see waste.'

- Rob.

[Cc-bizcom] 3 Page Proposal Summary, Marshall Van Alstyne, 08/19/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Cc-bizcom] 3 Page Proposal Summary, Rob Myers, 08/20/2004
  - Re: [Cc-bizcom] 3 Page Proposal Summary, Marshall Van Alstyne, 08/22/2004
    - Re: [Cc-bizcom] 3 Page Proposal Summary, Rob Myers, 08/22/2004
      - [Cc-bizcom] CGI & Open Source, Rob Myers, 08/23/2004
      - Re: [Cc-bizcom] 3 Page Proposal Summary, Marshall Van Alstyne, 08/24/2004
        
        Re: [Cc-bizcom] 3 Page Proposal Summary, Rob Myers, 08/24/2004
        
        Re: [Cc-bizcom] 3 Page Proposal Summary, Andrea Glorioso, 08/26/2004