So this guys says what maurice posted here about the acquisition is all "bold face lies". It's true that in corporations, usually there is a this cycle of buy/layoff, I've seen it.
But that is not at all what's been going on in Montreal with Softimage. and we sure as heck shouldn't be looking to someone in S-F to inform us. It's a small community here in Montreal of developers. Sottimage/Discreet/Kaydara/Max, it's all blending in. The guy that wrote IK in Softimage|3d and got an oscar for it? Worked on max for the last decade, with with the guys that wrote the XSI command panels and led the sumatra UI team. So Marc Petit, who of course we had known for more than a decade, came in and hired all the developers on Softimage that might have been acquired and layed off by some foreign company, we don't know, and kept the jobs in Montreal. Although lots of people out there are pushing the narrative that "everyone left", the vast majority, probably more than three quarters, not counting all the dozens of people who had come to Autodesk on their own before the acquisition, are still here and working at Autodesk. That's just the facts. We have also hired new people on top of this. Now of course, somebody he is going to tell me, wow I know all of these people who have left. To which I say, 10 to 18 years doing the same thing? How long are you supposed to stay, exactly? People move around all the time, the rate of attrition at Softimage and Autodesk M&E are much lower than the industry, IMHO. But they are not zero On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Jason S <jasonsta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stefan, If I can criticize your criticism, > > It does bring-up a number of not so great things about some clearly unfair > behavior. > > Yet the piece proposes a very "unconstructive" form of criticism > (just by the title itself, and the general tone), > > While becoming angry -can- be a good thing (if not essential) > when faced with situations that can be seen as not right, > there should be a clear distinction between firmly voicing disapproval, and > sheer lashing out. > (the latter being well on the counter-productive side) > > Calling people liars, incompetent or painting an entire organization as a > desease or cancer.. > > .. and you stated, > "It was also the very first time I saw professionals use amounts of > profanity on the list, in volume. " > > And when speaking about the (very) partial reversal, > > "The latter only came about after violent outbursts from the Softimage > users, and rightly so." > > I would argue that (thankfully) most criticism put forth here up-til the > reversal or otherwise, > has been firm, respectful, thoughtful, fair and specific. (for the very > large majority of the volume) > > Otherwise welcome back! :) >
