You do see the frustration here, right Maurice? By nature I'd say most Softimage users are very logical, straight forward, thinking individuals who quite often either own their own business or work as freelancers and therefore have a good understanding of how to run a business.
Every reason given so far for this entire situation seems to fall under the concept of "plausible deniability" because otherwise none of it makes sense. You have to believe that Softimage either A. had an incredible string of bad luck which, despite Autodesk giving 100% of it's effort to develop, market and sell the product, caused it to fail. or B. Autodesk bought Softimage for it's patents, technology and developers, then intentionally marginalized Softimage to the point of where a business case could be made to shut it down and force users to move to Maya. -Paul *"I think...a more reasonable view...[is] trying to allow customers to do what they want to do instead of being heavy-handed and forcing customers to do things that are in their best interest." - Carl Bass * On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Maurice Patel <maurice.pa...@autodesk.com>wrote: > No, and we are going round in circles as multiple topics are getting > meshed together. I doubt anything I can write will make you less furious. > If you want to talk I am open to that. > maurice > > Maurice Patel > Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bk > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 3:55 PM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass > > So from the outset, you bought Softimage with the view to take all the > engineers from it and put them onto another product? > If that is the case why not just be upfront about it and say this was your > 5 year plan instead of pretending you respected the userbase and pretending > wanted to continue Softimage, then suddenly giving a months notice > regarding the purchases of new licences? > Ive been frantic all month trying to figure out what I can or can't do > with my new as yet unformed company regarding buying licences. > I'm sorry, but I'm still furious. > > > > >
