Re: ridiculous question. . . ;)

[ralf@uni-koblenz.de]

On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 03:22:41PM -0700, D.A. Harris wrote:

> The replacement for Alias from Alias/Wavefront, a subsidary of SGI.  Maya 
> is Powerful 3D animation software, what I've seen and what my boss and 
> co-workers are saying is that it very intuitive to use, so far they love it, 
> one of the animators say it is more useful than Lightwave.  Course right now 
> it is only available for IRIX, and cost in the neighborhood of $40,000 
> (unless 
> you can get it on some educational discount).  An NT port is in the works
> by Alias/Wavefront.  Yeah, I know, I'll never see it on Linux, and I'm 
> wasting bandwidth.

On the day on which our binary compatibility is good enough to run
software product xy you can run xy whether the manufacturer of xy agrees -
or not.

  Ralf