I believe that ADSK has skirted through the gray area here by retaining Softimage for over 5 years and continuing to 'develop' it...as a show of good faith. "It just didn't perform as well as we'd hoped" type of propaganda. Thereby insulating themselves of any antitrust litigation. I would not be surprised at all if this was not their plan from the beginning, buy Softimage to pillage the patents and take a competitor off the market.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Rob Chapman <tekano....@gmail.com> wrote: > like we could trust our own various crooked governments to sort this > particular piece of greed & bullshit out. HAHAHA.. > > a small example. are Strands going to be ready in Maya by 2016? or is Max > that gets this small nugget of Softimage legacy uniqueness. An ICE plugin > perhaps? > > is there a list made where all the non easily transferable useful bits > (and made a living off) are to be found or eventually end up in 2016? > because they sure as hell do not exist right now in any other software > that autodesk currently offers. > > > > > > > > On 4 March 2014 20:11, Paul Griswold < > pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com> wrote: > >> I doubt you'd be able to do anything class action (though I'm not a >> lawyer, so what do I know). But I do think if enough people contacted >> their government representative about Autodesk's anti-competitive movement >> / monopolistic behavior, you'd see something happen. >> >> Autodesk is what Microsoft used to be. Perhaps it's time for a little >> government oversight / investigation? >> >> -Paul >> >> ᐧ >> > -- -=T=-
