[luau] NEWS: Disney wants Linux outlawed, but they depend on it

[Warren Togami]

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/06/19/1926203.shtml?tid=23

How does this work? Disney has opposed the Open Source community so many
times activists wanted to boycott the company. At the same time, Disney is
standardizing key parts of its operations on Linux? If that seems
surprising, it shouldn't be.

 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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