*yawn* I'm not impressed, so please cut the patronizing attitude. I have plenty of ground to stand on and just because you've worked in the industry for 10 yrs doesn't mean you know your $@#$@#$@# from a hole in the ground. Not that you don't... but it in itself doesn't mean much. There are plenty of clueless people in every industry. Again, I'm not saying you're one of them, just that I don't know you're not.
I yes, I think we can all figure out what an 8 figure budget is. (We can count you know... and I'm sure we've all heard those terms before. *rolls eyes*) Kinda light for the industry actually... I was more refferring to what higher 8 and 9 figure projects do. They render on Linux.
And for your information, seeing as you have a hard time with what you first posted... this is the argument I've been consistently dispelling:
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there is no way these free products have the features that the other software has that cost several thousand dollars. Its not because it cost more that makes me say that, its because the compaies can hire the best programmers to to the work. I dont know about you, but I couldnt afford to spend all my time and energy developing a product that wasnt going to support my family. So these products dont have nearly the same resources dedicated to them.
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So yes, you did bash all free software. And I'm simply pointing out that it was extremely stupid to ever say that, as it's false and you should know better. The fact that you don't make me wonder in what parts of the industry you have worked in... because most of the good studios do render on an operating system which, according to your arguments, doesn't have any good programmers programming it. Many also use other open-source software in their work. Disney (who might have just a little bit of knowledge in the field) has been committing programmers on the WINE project to help the developers in their goal to create an entire re-implementation of the win32 API under linux to run apps such as photoshop. This just proves how much many studios with a lot of cash really do like free software, they are willing to hire programmers to aid in the continuation of it's development. And everyone benefits. Nice little system eh? Not something you should say only creates inferior products. This is the crux of my argument.