NewsForge: Disney, Linux and the “Next Big Thing” in Computing

“A number of companies who look like unlikely candidates for
Linux are making the switch. Like at Disney, many of them have
executives who see the Open Source community as a threat to their
business. Like at Disney, whatever management may think of the Open
Source movement, company engineers are rapidly standardizing on
Linux to solve a unique set of technical problems.

“You may have heard or read the Disney Company announcement this
week that it was standardizing its digital animation platform on
Linux from Hewlett -Packard. You may have been surprised. This is
the same company that has denounced Open Source activists. It is
the same company which has lobbied for restrictive legislation such
as the bill that used to be called the SSSCA. It may seem ironic
that a company Open Source advocates once tried to boycott is
putting its multinational stamp of approval on Linux.

“Whatever the political position of company executives, Disney
employees have been using Open Source products for some
time…”

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