Re:Shame (Score 1)

Most of the fanatics seem to think installing Linux on an SGI will turn it into a PC, but I've never seen a technical explanation for how this should work. Well, most likely, they're just a bunch of snobs. It's true. I knew marketting guy from SGI who was responsible for making deals with various defence and NASA departments. Those defence departments used to buy SGI machines like popcorns and Pepsi. But he used to think those defence guys are stupid because he can sell "anything" to them by showing some nice high-performance graphics demos and numbers (like 70 frames/sec etc). Probably those defence guys really are (I have no idea), but I guess SGI started treating other consumers same way (many of them are not definitely stupids and they are certainly now cashcow). So that's their philisophy - they are the "innovators" and rest of the world is stupid - ready buy "anything". Now, I think it's too late to realize that rest of the world is not ready to buy "anything".