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Re: Disney Open Source

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Post by Pulce » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:47 PM UTC

giuscri wrote: post #14

Pulce wrote: post #2

Good. I have downloaded and viewed a lot of WD movies with torrents (I'm a near homeless man in Italy, no money to buy/rent DVD). Now I can give back something contributing to the open source project.

Can I ask you why you're near homeless? It's because you find hard to find a job?, or you've accumulated debt you're struggling to exinct? I'm from Italy too but I'm a student and I'm curious: what are the troubles a hacker has in Italy? — assuming you worked in tech. I know it's rude to ask, I understand if you don't mind to answer. :)

Thanks, I'll write to you soon. edit: :)

Re: Disney Open Source

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Post by gkoberger » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:48 PM UTC

alexkavon wrote: post #5

Can't wait for the Mickey Mouse repo in 2024.

Why? Disney has invested countless dollars into Mickey Mouse over the past 89 years. It's not like the Happy Birthday song, being hoarded without innovation purely for profit; they're actively expanding/investing/improving and making billions of people happy.

Why should random companies get to legally print knockoff Mickey t-shirts just because enough time has passed?

Re: Disney Open Source

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Post by qwertyuiop924 » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:51 PM UTC

agentgt wrote: post #3

I was expecting to see some Squeak links (OSS Smalltalk) but I guess no one at Disney is using it now? I think it was the Go.com group ala Alan Kay that was doing something with it internally (I'll need to do some googling but it appears the group moved to ycombinator according to wikipedia... my memory sucks).

If you must Squeak to a company, attribute it to Apple. That's where the project started. The team behind it then moved to Walt Disney Imagineering (Disney's R&D Arm). From then, the team's corporate sponsorship becomes a tangled mess, but according to Wikipedia, they've been with HP Labs, SAP Labs, and... Y-Combinator.

Well, that's a name I didn't expect to see there.

Re: Disney Open Source

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:51 PM UTC

agentgt wrote: post #3

I was expecting to see some Squeak links (OSS Smalltalk) but I guess no one at Disney is using it now? I think it was the Go.com group ala Alan Kay that was doing something with it internally (I'll need to do some googling but it appears the group moved to ycombinator according to wikipedia... my memory sucks).

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Re: Disney Open Source

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Post by zalmoxes » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:52 PM UTC

dragonshed wrote: post #12

The DIY style management software for OS X/macOS[1][2] is interesting. I knew commercial packages existed for this sort of thing (and more), but I'm fascinated that Disney admins & engineers chose to implement their own Software Update Servers. [1] https://github.com/munki/munki [2] https://github.com/wdas/reposado

FYI, a large number of enterprise orgs and Edus use Munki and Reposado to manage Macs. Among these: Google(their fork is called Simian: https://github.com/google/simian) and Facebook.

Not only is Munki used across a large number of organizations, it also happens to arguable be the best current software management tool for Macs.

Another project maintained by the same group of MacAdmins is AutoPKG https://github.com/autopkg/autopkg

Re: Disney Open Source

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Post by qwertyuiop924 » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:54 PM UTC

santaclaus wrote: post #10

Super cool! I'd be curious to see what bits of software here are from WDAS vs ILM vs Pixar.

...Quite a few of them. IIRC, Alembic is from ILM, but I know it's not from Disney. But a lot of those are joint efforts from all over the industry.

Re: Disney Open Source

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Post by ncannon » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:55 PM UTC

yazaddaruvala wrote: post #6

Just an FYI: Always be careful! I opened up a couple of these repos and some seem to have modifications on their licenses. Some like OpenEXR say "BSD" but don't actually have a license file. Others like, Ptex and Partio, have no mention of a license at all. Edit: For anyone wondering why this is an issue. From a legal standpoint, there is a huge difference between being able to read the code, and being able to use th…

All those you mention do have licenses.

OpenEXR - https://github.com/openexr/openexr/blob/develop/OpenEXR/LICE...

Ptex - http://ptex.us/documentation.html

Partio - https://github.com/wdas/partio/blob/master/src/doc/license.t...

Re: Disney Open Source

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Post by brainflake » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:56 PM UTC

yazaddaruvala wrote: post #6

Just an FYI: Always be careful! I opened up a couple of these repos and some seem to have modifications on their licenses. Some like OpenEXR say "BSD" but don't actually have a license file. Others like, Ptex and Partio, have no mention of a license at all. Edit: For anyone wondering why this is an issue. From a legal standpoint, there is a huge difference between being able to read the code, and being able to use th…

There are some well-defined rules around publishing your code on github w/o a license. Apparently it's detailed in the TOS.

https://help.github.com/articles/open-source-licensing/#what...

Re: Disney Open Source

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:57 PM UTC

bmuon wrote: post #13

baccredited wrote: post #11

Steps: 1. Fire all the old programmers 2. Make them train their cheap H-1B visa replacements 3. Open source some code 4. Have a magical day! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-...

Did the NYTimes actually do any research for that piece? H1Bs are required to have a higher salary than average precisely to avoid that from happening

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Re: Disney Open Source

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 11:02 PM UTC

baccredited wrote: post #11

Steps: 1. Fire all the old programmers 2. Make them train their cheap H-1B visa replacements 3. Open source some code 4. Have a magical day! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-...

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