Re: [SLE] Closed Source on Linux?

From: John Coldrick (jc_at_axyzfx.com)
Date: 11/17/05

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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:07:00 -0500

    On Thursday 17 November 2005 13:53, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
    > What do others think about the place of closed source, proprietary software
    > running on Linux?

            No doubt the stuff of endless flamewars, but that gets into mixing politics
    and OS's, something I try to stay away from. :) We use a number of
    closed-source products on Linux. As the mighty SGI sank into the sunset,
    another platform was needed for those of us in the visual FX biz - and Linux
    was an obvious choice. Still is - more and more products are being porting
    to Linux, including a recent announcement from Discreet about their Flame
    compositing system being ported. I have little doubt Inferno will follow. We
    run a number of proprietary packages alongside all the great OS products out
    there. I see no problem with that. If there was an OS product that did as
    well for any given product, I'd use it in a heartbeat.

            Cheers,

            J.C. 

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