Professionals prefer open standards

[miker]

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20...wood_dc_1.html

Consider Linux as your next OS !!
(I'm already using it to write this)

[sdchown]

Hello

I am a IT professional. And I disagree with you. I think Windows is the dogs bollocks. Developing for windows is how I make my film funding cash.

So not all professionals prefer open standards.

Later
Stephen

[andy_winton]

How about -

'professionals who have fully evaluated and
understood the differences between micr$oft
and open standard prefer open standards'

--

However, let's not get into a flame war.
My OS is better than your OS.

--

However, however, MS have done some very
very bad things, albeit in the name of
greed. One thing I would liked to see from
the court case would be to force MS to
stick to standard and not make their own.
This would be better for the users (which
always seems to be their chant). Or even
something like when you sell X million copies
of a program you must port it to another
OS, etc.

Yep, of course these are all unworkable,
but it just seems they are getting a slap
on the wrists (or pat on the back depending
how you see things) for the wrong reasons.

Anyway, sorry to take up airtime with this
old debate. Just forgetabout it, there's
nothing we can do.

andy

[Curtin-Parloe]

Hello

I too am an IT professional, and I think that Windows is just bollocks
If I didn't have to support Microsoft Bloatware, I'd have more time to make films
Why can't we all go back to abacusses(abaci?)
Don't think I'm criticising, I'm just letting off steam. I hate my job!

cheers

Paul

[miker]

I am also an IT professional using my skills to fund my films.

When considering a budget, when you can ditch M$ CALs and proprietry protocols and breakware, that is a good thing.

Sure, Win2000 is good, but how it hangs when accessing a CD-ROM still (=slack low level coding IMHO)

I am not a developer, I consult/implement/support, and once you find a suitable solution on Linux you never want to go back to windows for lots of reasons.

The fact that the film industry is being seen to embrace Linux means in my view, having Linux skills is good. THINK about it, duh.

And as for Microsoft confusing people with their 'Linux is cancer' mantra, I see windows assimilating more OEMs like a cancer than Linux.


oops ... here comes some work ...

[miker]

to continue, however, I do think Microsoft have pretty much helped drive down the cost of PC hardware by virtue of shifting so many boxes ... and those boxes wouldn't shift if Windows was utter shite.

But Linux is steadily becoming a viable alternative to windows in many areas, it's definitely an area to watch.

How does this affect filmmaking then?

Imagine not having to pay for your NLE software (Broadcast2000) or your 3D software (Blender) or your office suite (KOffice) etc.

Imagine an OS that never crashes in normal use, processes that can be killed absolutely instantly, 6 parallel terminals on the same PC, a graphical interface that can be exported to thin clients across a network.

Imagine an OS that doesn't lock you into decision making for the future, runs a firewall on a 386 class hardware and includes many if not all of the technology that gave birth to the internet itself.

[anorak off, asbestos suit on]

[sdchown]

Who cares how good or bad microsoft software is, I earn good rates developing for their platforms.

Unemployment = Bad
Money = Good

You could even say that if it weren't for Microsoft, I wouldn't have been able to spend a grand and a half on a video assist for my Eclair ACL.

Cheerio
Stephen



[This message has been edited by sdchown (edited August 16, 2001).]

[andy_winton]

Erm,

Surely the assumption that if it weren't
for M$ we'd not have PCs today is more
of a leap of faith than an assumption.

Maybe without them, we'd all have
mac-clones and be in a better situation...

And again, you'd then be writing software
for MAC (or similar).

I think you give too much credit to
M$. In my opinion nothing could stop
the computer revolution, and to say that
it is all because of one company is a
bit too much to take in.

We now even see a sub $1000 SUN
workstation. So even the traditionally
expensive hardware is in anyone's reach.

So, sorry, in my opinion if MS was not
here we would not be taking punched cards
to our babbage difference engine.

Would it be better without MS? I don't
think it would be any worse. Either way,
it would be interesting to turn the clock
back, change history and see how things
would turn out...

[an idea for a film...]

[andy presses send on his Turing Mark 3
computer designed when Alan Turing was
at the age of 93...only if huh?]

andy

[Chance1234]

if we all switched back to windows 3.1 half the problems would be gone

I too develop microsoft pants, but moving away to project management more and more now.

though syaing that going to learn Java and Java beans, theres a guy in my building who is on over a grand a day developing it

[Chance1234]

if we all switched back to windows 3.1 half the problems would be gone

I too develop microsoft pants, but moving away to project management more and more now.

though syaing that going to learn Java and Java beans, theres a guy in my building who is on over a grand a day developing it