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Forbes/Yahoo!: Holding Up Hollywood
Nov 10, 2003, 15 :00 UTC (29 Talkback[s]) (10198 reads)

(Other stories by Daniel Lyons)

"Most of Hollywood's big special-effects and animation companies now use Linux. DreamWorks, maker of Shrek and Sinbad, boasts on its Web site of its 'groundbreaking adoption of Linux.' Digital Domain, which worked on Titanic and Apollo 13, runs Linux on about 1,000 processors. Lucas Digital runs Linux on nearly 1,500 boxes to create effects for the Star Wars epics and Harry Potter movies.

"But this love affair with freeware may prove costly. SCO Group, a $64 million (sales) software shop in Lindon, Utah that owns copyrights to the Unix system that inspired Linux, aims to collect fees from companies that use the free code. It may target Hollywood next. 'They're using a ton of Linux in Hollywood, so they've become a lightning rod for us,' says Darl McBride, SCO's chief executive..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Every retelling of the Linux story gets  ...   Can just one of you people get it right?   
Jerald Sheets
Nov 10, 2003, 15:21:56
 
SCO was almost gone. The whole "Linux is ...   SCO Stock Prices   
Alex Chejlyk
Nov 10, 2003, 15:27:00
 
Okay, send Spiderman to wrap up that naf ...   SCO in Hollywood (Hollyweird)   
horne
Nov 10, 2003, 15:28:34
 
... and you will be struck. Many times.  ...   No, YOU are the lightning rod...   
John Bell
Nov 10, 2003, 15:42:07
 
Can't we get this thing into court a ...   Oh, for cryin' out loud!   
Waylena
Nov 10, 2003, 15:52:42
 
IBM's counterclaim seems to present  ...   IBM-Brian Skiba has ties with SCO.   
Shiva
Nov 10, 2003, 15:56:14
 
..... So what if the studios tell SCO to ...   Prepare to be surprised.   
Brandioch Conner
Nov 10, 2003, 16:32:46
 
SCO left to their own means will eventua ...   Comes Around   
Jim
Nov 10, 2003, 16:35:12
 
LINUX WAS INSPIRED BY MINIX NOT UNIXAnd  ...   How fine can you split that hair?   
roystgnr
Nov 10, 2003, 16:35:12
 
I suspect Hollywood will be as forthcomi ...   Good luck collecting   
DrXym
Nov 10, 2003, 16:37:20
 
    I am flabbergasted that American jus ...   Where is the justice system?   
sssksk
Nov 10, 2003, 16:51:31
 
But whoever issued that challenge to a f ...   McBride is a punk   
Ian Rowan
Nov 10, 2003, 16:59:04
 
I've said this to you and I'll s ...   News Flash for McBride & Co.   
Nicholas Donovan
Nov 10, 2003, 17:12:05
 
>     I am flabbergasted that American j ...   Re: Where is the justice system?   
Todd
Nov 10, 2003, 17:12:39
 
And the fact that you can hardly open up ...   Re: How fine can you split that hair?   
Jacek Piskozub
Nov 10, 2003, 17:19:05
 
Darl's gansta attitude is getting ex ...   Tiresome drivel.   
g@
Nov 10, 2003, 17:39:27
 
I don't know about that... Certain s ...   Re: Good luck collecting   
Ted Appleby
Nov 10, 2003, 17:39:52
 
In addition to the SCO's ever wideni ...   conspiracy potential   
ba
Nov 10, 2003, 17:59:49
 
I've tried to reason with you and I& ...   Message to Dan Lyons....   
Nicholas Donovan
Nov 10, 2003, 18:10:33
 
> .....McBride's assault on the "pea ...   Re: Prepare to be surprised.   
Eric Laffoon
Nov 10, 2003, 19:48:46
 
> but would they overrule their lawyers  ...   Re: Re: Good luck collecting   
Rufus Polson
Nov 10, 2003, 20:25:21
 
> Darl's gansta attitude is getting  ...   Re: Tiresome drivel.   
mouse
Nov 10, 2003, 22:46:24
 
McBribe must be a karate-kid.bwahahahaha ...   caller declined for a fist-fight?   
Xunil Ung
Nov 10, 2003, 23:14:23
 
>  (Outside the US, most are tired of ou ...   Re: conspiracy potential   
David
Nov 10, 2003, 23:15:23
 
> Don't you guys read the Groklaw li ...   Re: Re: Where is the justice system?   
SM
Nov 10, 2003, 23:39:42
 
How is it that  Forbes and Yahoo team up ...   What a smoking pile of   
Joe User
Nov 11, 2003, 01:30:12
 
 Okay, send Spiderman to wrap up that na ...   Re: SCO in Hollywood (Hollyweird)   
Daniel Carrera
Nov 11, 2003, 03:30:46
 
> > .....McBride's assault on the "p ...   Re: Re: Prepare to be surprised.   
Nicholas Donovan
Nov 11, 2003, 13:36:57
 
A lightning-rod Darl?.Well that's go ...   meteorology   
mfish
Nov 12, 2003, 02:01:09
 
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