> Maybe we should just setup a crowdfunding project and buy SI back from AD > ourselves ;-)
but buy what exactly? and to do what with it? we want this software to live on and thrive – just getting it out of the hands of ADSK is not going to make that happen. In the hands of ADSK it’s on life support – enough not to die but not enough to regain it’s vitality. Money (lots of it) will still need to be pumped into it’s development. So how much years of life does it have left really? If we take SI3D as a reference – wiki says it was first released in 1988, and last release in 2002 – so that’s 14 years. XSI was released in 2000 – and we are now beginning of 2014. (happy 2014 y’all) Can we really hope for anyone to heavily invest in it’s future at this point in its lifecycle? Imagine 1000 entities -companies, individuals- could be found to each couch up 10.000$ – that’s 10M$. This sounds like wishful thinking to me, yet Softimage was sold to AD for 35M$ I don’t think crowd-funding will make enough money to buy “it” – less so provide a stream of funds for an extended period. For that it needs to get back in shape and be properly commercialized. A new owner would have to be willing and able to really push the software – which would be against ADSKs interests. And where Avid and Adsk didn’t succeed commercially, why would that change with a new owner? Granted, I can hardly imagine anyone doing a worse job than they have – perhaps Adobe or Apple could do worse yet? Perhaps the way out would be a joint venture – where ADSK remains owner for 49 or 51% and another, interested party tries to give it a kickstart? From: Toonafish Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 12:03 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year Maybe we should just setup a crowdfunding project and buy SI back from AD ourselves ;-) -Ronald On 1/2/2014 23:49, Manuel Huertas Marchena wrote: "I'm just thinking what if Avid or MS buy back SI if AD really abandon SI." mm...I don't think autodesk wants to sell a product just for someone else to revamp it and sell it as a concurrent to 3ds and maya... if they were ever to abandon soft, they might just keep it to themselves... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 11:42:58 +1300 Subject: Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year From: danielki...@gmail.com To: w...@fiftyeight.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com I'm just thinking what if Avid or MS buy back SI if AD really abandon SI. I like SI when Avid and MS had it... Old good memory. Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Kim Animation Director & Professional 3D Generalist http://www.danielkim3d.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:34 AM, w...@fiftyeight.com <w...@fiftyeight.com> wrote: So when softimage is "dead"(I hate this thread) what do you think?All softimage-user/Companys will switch then to another Software immediately? I think the will stay for 2-4years and then switch to another Applikation. And AD will get no money Hahh haha, i think AD has no change to bury SI,maybe they will Sell it, and this means :rebirth !!! happy New year! And please cloth this thread . Sorry fort my englisch Walt -- Ronald van Vemden ----------------------------------------------- 3D Graphics & Animation Cyberfish Laboratories | www.cyberfish.nl Toonafish | www.toonafish.nl tel. +31(0)20 5289291 fax +31(0)20 5289292 email: ron...@toonafish.nl
