It's always the same story. When I worked in the blockbuster VFX industry, in the early to mid 2000's, whenever anyone suggested we open-source stuff, people would shake their heads.
After all, your craptacular pipeline was surely the secret sauce that made you get jobs and/or be cost effective while everyone else was definitely cooking with water ...
I remember a friend of mine getting openly mocked at a pub in Soho, in 2007, by his co-workers from MPC for suggesting this. DNeg, the company I worked for at the time, wasn't any better.
Mind you, this was after ILM already open-sourced OpenEXR and Alembic formats years ago and they had become industry standards more or less over night, afterwards.
Now there is the Academy Software Foundation and everyone in VFX is using OSS (that came from various big studios, mostly) all over the place.
When I worked in the automotive software industry in Germany, half a decade ago, it was the same. People shook their heads at me and I was mocked for suggesting this.
But I actually made a bet then (just a crate of beers, but hey) with one of the mockers. I guess it will soon be time to cash in on that.
Ok, being the German automotive industry (or rather: BMW & Mercedes, for now, if I read the press release right) -- when it comes to anything software it could still be anywhere between 1--5 years, before the intent "materializes" ...
After all, your craptacular pipeline was surely the secret sauce that made you get jobs and/or be cost effective while everyone else was definitely cooking with water ...
I remember a friend of mine getting openly mocked at a pub in Soho, in 2007, by his co-workers from MPC for suggesting this. DNeg, the company I worked for at the time, wasn't any better.
Mind you, this was after ILM already open-sourced OpenEXR and Alembic formats years ago and they had become industry standards more or less over night, afterwards.
Now there is the Academy Software Foundation and everyone in VFX is using OSS (that came from various big studios, mostly) all over the place.
When I worked in the automotive software industry in Germany, half a decade ago, it was the same. People shook their heads at me and I was mocked for suggesting this.
But I actually made a bet then (just a crate of beers, but hey) with one of the mockers. I guess it will soon be time to cash in on that.
Ok, being the German automotive industry (or rather: BMW & Mercedes, for now, if I read the press release right) -- when it comes to anything software it could still be anywhere between 1--5 years, before the intent "materializes" ...