You have no idea what the comparison is, and I don't either. But again, the criticisim is around running a business off of a bunch of Apple "trash cans".
>advocating vendor lockin to windows.
Linux is no lockin, Windows lockin via software vs. Apple for hardware and software.
>"vendor lockin" to that platform
Java, Scala,or any other JVM language protects from that, and to a lesser degree Python, PHP does as well.
>There is little risk being "locked in" to the largest most successful company in the world.
Price gauging? Deciding not to support your platform anymore? Forcing you to upgrade?
>Build on Linux and you're locked into just Linux, unless you port.
Only that there are a bunch of Linux options to choose from, they are all open source so you can do whatever you want as far as upgrade paths and support, and if you use the JVM languages this isn't an issue.
>in fact I think one Mac Pro probably replaces 4 or 5 Linux boxes doing this.
There is no fact there, that's your delusional opinion.
>If you think Optimized OpenGL shaders would do this, you're not understanding what it is that they are doing. You're just assuming it's a trivial problem, it is not.
It's a CDN + image manipulation tool, you don't need 3D libraries. And if you use exiting libraries or tools, it is quite trivial. Here is their API: http://www.imgix.com/docs/reference
