> The Unix philosophy: do one thing, and do it well You're trying to argue that there should be two distinct pieces of software, a local and a remote renderer,

> The Unix philosophy: do one thing, and do it well You're trying to argue that there should be two distinct pieces of software, a local and a remote renderer, for simplicity. Rendering does not fit in that space well. The physical resource of a display and graphics card really only allows one renderer to run, so it's not really useful to say "just write two renderers, one local and one remote". The unix philosophy is not a good argument. It's a principal by which you can make decisions, but it doesn't always lead to good decisions and it's quite open to interpretation as well.