Re: Nodes galore II (not ICE)

[takita]

Yeah well I was coming from the "shave and yeti being apples and oranges except for the patent language part" angle for sure.  Though I would expect most people would probably take the hint and start looking seriously at Houdini or Soft, but maybe that is giving them too much credit. -T -----Original Message----- From: Raffaele Fragapane Sent: Apr 29, 2012 8:34 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Nodes galore II (not ICE) Actually, and sadly, it will. When you consider the average customer, who definitely doesn't follow the CGI news as much as we might, nor would care about this if he did, and how few products there are for this specific problem (for maya it's shave, and yeti, and that's about it), every license of yeti not sold in the States is a license of shave sold instead. Having seen extensively both, my feeling is this is complete and utter bullshit. There is hardly anything in common between the two systems, so I imagine the patent must be related to rendering time injection (because it sure as hell can't be related to the drastically different management and grooming approach), or one of those disputes that can only work thanks to a legal system that, in that domain, has taken the step into the twilight zone years ago and has never come back. Mind, not that anybody who's ever dealt, or heard of dealings, with the guy ever had a shadow of a doubt about what an incredible, litigious, self absorbed, vainglorious douche bag he is. On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Todd Akita <tak...@earthlink.net> wrote: Wow I'm sure that's gonna steer all those potential Yeti customers right to Joe Alter. -T