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From: dwboyce@acsu.buffalo.edu (Doug Boyce)
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Subject: Re: Renderman on NeXT
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Date: 1 May 91 14:41:30 GMT
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In article <5767@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> wave@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson) writes:
 
  Last I checked, Jobs owned exactly 51% of Pixar.  That data comes from an 
  article I read several (1987?) years ago when Jobs bought into Pixar, so I
  could be misremembering, but I doubt it.  i.e., he doesn't own the whole
  thing, but he is the majority stockholder.  As to the bundling of Renderman
  increasing the cost of the upgrade, I think the idea is to "bundle it" the
  same way say, Mathematica, is bundled.  Mathematica is an expensive program
  on other machines, but because NeXT and Wolfram cut a deal, it comes to you
  with the educational purchase of your machine.  
  
  In other words, I think (and hope!) it will be bundled, but don't think it 
  will increase the cost of 3.0.

For a little blurb about him owning Pixar look at Fortune's May 6 '91 issue
(around page 111).


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