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From: jordan <triplesquarednine@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: preempt rt in commercial use
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:47:38 -0400
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Hey Reagan.

>> It may be the case where
>> Linux or *BSD have been used in render farms because of license cost,
>> not for any particular technical merit!

Try modifying Windows or OSX, to be as streamlined as Linux can be.
Try to make fundamental changes to
the operating system itself... You cant do that with Proprietary code.
(obviously)

> The reason was that the studios were migrating from SGI Irix onto higher
> performance, lower cost x86 hardware. GNU/Linux was familiar to the Irix
> application developers and sysadmins, who did not want to migrate to
> Windows.
>
> It was about the best tools for the job, not some bogus perception that
> Free Software is 'cheap' because it is given freely (which upsets the
> developers I know).

Daniel, is so very correct here. Even if Windows was free, they still
wouldn't be using it. For all the reasons Daniel has explained, and
the other example i have written above. Windows/OSX are not flexible
enough, for these more specific applications/usages.

jordan