[stevek]

My statement never said its not good enough for me. I think you proved my point. The companies like maya don't release their AFORDABLE versions for Unix- which means the support of AFORDABLE INDUSTRY STANDARD software is not there. I said I have nothing agains UNIX. Even though you quoted my entire statement your responce takes coments out of context. So go back and read all the posts in this thread. Then make more complete arguments. From what I can see, most of you are students, or you selected the wrong Title for yourself. If thats the case, is it too much to assume that you only read about the industry and you are not a working professional. I do work for major corprations, TV Networks and large production compaines. I have been in the industry for 10yrs. I see whats being used first hand. The stuff you talk about is being used for some feature films and national TV commercial work. These are 6, 7, and 8 figure budgets (thats 100k and up incase you dont know the financial terms) You will find that only a select number of production companies deal with this level of work. So if you read all my posts you will see that I talk about the type of work and budgets that you work for will determine the tools that make sence. With this in mind. I feel that there is not ENOUGH software to produce a FULL project at the price thats AFORDABLE based on the BUDGETS I work in. I also feel that there is not enough FREE stuff out there to do the trick either. That's not to say that there is not a program here or there that is good. Its definately not cost effective to have different computers and O/S's running just to run one or two pieces of software here and one or two pieces of software there. Unless you have some of these endless budgets to afford the systems and all the upgrades for multiple platforms of the same software.

I'm not even going to adress the Microsoft issues here- Call me when you have a better understanding of business and economics. And the understanding only comes from real world experience and study as a business owner- not as an employee and not from a High School teacher or Colege professor. Which expliains why of all the Multi-millionairs I know most don't have a college degree. Most of the billionairs Iv'e met and or read about- Are not colege graduates. I say to help you understand that business is not learned in school and untill you understand business you wont understand what I am talking about in regards to microsoft. How the heck would the microprocessor companies have enough capital to further develop their technology if there weren't any computers that were user friendly and floodiung the market? Its a simbiotic relation ship.