unfortunately so true... In my opinion as a company you should not only have a responsibility for your products but also towards your customers. But as seen in the last couple of years this seams not more relevant to stock corporations.
The misfortune with Autodesk is that a whole industry is depended on their decisions which should give them quite some responsibility. Stephan. PG> I don't think Autodesk cares at ALL about any of the M&E packages PG> they own. They've recognized the value of patents and PG> intellectual property. It's the reason IBM is still around today. PG> If Autodesk scoops up all the intellectual property, it doesn't PG> matter if they cancel every M&E product they own as long as they PG> can sue anyone who uses one of their patents without paying for it. PG> Joe Alter ring a bell to anyone? PG> Why hasn't there been more innovation in hair? Hmmm... PG> ? PG> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Stephan Hempel <elh...@gmail.com> wrote: PG> Maybe Autodesk should sell the whole M&E division to the community PG> before they dump any valuable asset into the ground and PG> therefore decrease the total value of M&E. Given that M&E only PG> contributes 7% to their profits lets me wonder why they moved into PG> this business in the first place. PG> I think Autodesk would lose quite a few customers to the PG> competition, especially smaller studios. So it would be utterly PG> stupid to stop developing Softimage. PG> Cheers, PG> Stephan. PG> am Montag, 3. März 2014 um 19:09 schriebst Du: >> That would be bad news. I hope it's not true but I'm sure many >> people on this list are not surprised given AD's strategy, or lack of, with >> SI. >> Honestly though it doesn't make good business sense to develop 3 >> dcc apps that overlap in many ways, so it shouldn't be unexpected >> for a company like AD to scrap redundancies and pool resources to one >> product at some point. >> On 3/3/2014 11:19 AM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: >> Yes tomorrow is supposed to be the "official" announcement. >> Maybe also they leaked this rumor before to see how would we react, >> and how much of us will "convert" to that F$2#%&$2!"#&& Maya. >> 2014-03-03 11:13 GMT-06:00 Eric Thivierge <ethivie...@hybride.com>: >> Wait until tomorrow... rumored to be posted then. >> On 3/3/2014 11:56 AM, Doeke Wartena wrote: >> Does someone have a link where i can read si2015 is the last one? >> And if so, that's so tragic. -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen Stephan Hempel mailto:hempli...@web.de
