CinePaint: The GIMP Goes Hollywood (O'ReillyNet)
CinePaint started as a development version of The GIMP, sponsored by the film industry in 1998. The GIMP evolved in a different direction, though, and The GIMP team abandoned the code to languish in CVS. As an example of what CinePaint developers call the "Lazarus effect," useful open source projects never need to die. Though Film GIMP never saw a public release, the current CinePaint team came together, resurrecting and renaming the project. Development continues to this day."
Posted Apr 30, 2004 20:33 UTC (Fri)
by taniwha (guest, #49)
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Kind of makes me think of vampires (recently watched a vampire anime series, so maybe "Alucard" would work too:)
Posted May 2, 2004 7:54 UTC (Sun)
by jamesh (guest, #1159)
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Actually, it is quite easy to permanently delete things with CVS. You use the cvs admin -o command.
Posted May 1, 2004 12:51 UTC (Sat)
by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
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Posted May 1, 2004 22:18 UTC (Sat)
by jae (guest, #2369)
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And proprietary software... well, few users is bad. Big budgets is good...
Yes, that's one of the beauties of CVS (or any halfway decent revision control system (subversion evangelists etc pipe down:), for that matter): once code has been committed to the repository, it will (in theory, anyway, there are ways) never die, even if it's backed out 5 seconds later. You can even "delete" dropped features from the code without them really dieing thanks to CVS' history. It just takes somebody having the gumption to go through the revival ritual(s) (using CVS' merging feature does seem to require blood and virgins, etc:).
Lazarus effect...
Lazarus effect...
I always thought that a market like this (few users with specialized needs and big budgets) will be for proprietary or in-house software. It's quite strange to see competing companies like ILM, DreamWorks and Sony contributing to the same software.
Interesting market
Since the production studios are not in competition in the SW arena,Interesting market
why shouldn't they not work together?
until the users find a way to save that money. Which they just did.