Well, we could always organise a ProjectX like party at AD building...
That would be ...something.
Sorry can't be more constructive...
Le 31/08/2012 18:40, Stefan Andersson a écrit :
+10000 to what you said.
On Friday, August 31, 2012, Guy Rabiller wrote:
When Autodesk bought Softimage, I said it was the end of XSI.
Nobody wanted to believe me at that time, peoples were reassured
with wonderfull statements saying on the contrary "with the dev
and financial power of Autodesk" glorious days are ahead..
Well.. I hope now these peoples realize XSI *is* indead dead.
Autodesk bought Softimage for technologies and patents to be
reused in other products, nothing more.
I think it's now time for the 3d industry to boycott Autodesk. But
who has really the balls to do that ?
Lately, we saw more and more open source libraries developped and
released by major companies. I think it's a sign.
There is a non-said/secret wish more and more obvious for the rise
of an alternative solution, an open source and free solution, a
weapon against beeing held hostage by companies who don't give a
f..k about their clients, only their wallet.
There are some very interresting initiatives, openexr, ptex,
opensubdiv, the applessed renderer, the fabric engine, etc.. among
a lot of others.
I believe in this approach: companies, freelancers, working on
'blocks' of features that could be assembled together to produce
the weapon in question.
It's a non-sense now to start a company to create a new 'ultimate'
3d software. What makes sense is if each company, individual,
creates a 'block' of something, depending on their level of
expertise. Then those blocks can be assembled together either by a
community, a company, an individual. The result would suits each
one of them.
And these weapons must be open source and free.
These would be the only weapon powerfull enough against softwares
and jobs killer companies like Autodesk.
So rather than to complain against Autodesk, who has actualy the
guts to do something about it ?
- Stop using Autodesk products ? (I did)
- Work on alternative solutions ? (I do)
- Contribute to existing projects ? (I'm trying)
- Create your on 'block' ? (I'm trying)
No ? Then stop complaining, you have no power to change the
situation with words only. Companies like Autodesk do not care
about your words.
At all.
Cheers,
Guy.
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