[rescue] SGI

[Kevin]

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I guess, although there are very few "small" studios
relying on SGI anymore, and even fewer who pay SGI
legally. I am all for a company being compensated for
their work and product but guys like us help them much
more than hurt.  If i remember correctly (and perhaps
this has changed since then) but SGI announced some
time ago that they would not be supporting IRIX after
2006, in favor of Linux.

I would think that they would not be trying so hard to
protect some thing that they are slowing/stopping
development on.  Then again, maybe that's their plan. 
Maybe they are planning on charging out the ass for
"legacy" support in 2007.

/KRM

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:27:50 -0500
Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:34:23AM -0500, Kevin
> wrote:
> 
> > Does that count as a contact ? :)  SGI's policies
> > on OSes and patches SUCK.  There's no two ways
> > about it. I fail to understand how they would be
> > hurt by a hobbyist program.
> 
> Maybe they are afraid that a hobbiest program would
> mean that small studios with only one or two SGIs
> would stop paying large amounts of money to SGI.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
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