> > > Please AD, bring Soft back to a decent and fair exposure, at least > > closer to the one it deserves or sell it back if you're embarrassed. > > I'm sure there's a lot of interested and rich people who would buy it, > > you'll make money out of your 2008 deal and you'll make anger go down.
That, I think, will never happen, because AD did not buy Softimage for XSI > but for the patents Softimage had over its technologies. Reselling > Softimage would mean reselling the patents as well, and that is precisely > what they want to avoid. Buying as much patents as possible is the only way > to really shadow competitors. > I know Guy, I was trying to make some humor out of a dramatic situation that's been going on for four years now. I remember you were saying that the minute after the deal went down. > Don't wait until someone comes up with a high performance DCC-like suite > made with ../.. > > That's why I keep on saying the 'true' solution will have to come up from > the Open Source community. This is the only valid path. But it will take > some time. Once Blender will get rid of it's Z up and get it's interface a little civilized, it's already mature enough to strike pretty hard. Performance wise, it's already far ahead of any other DCC on the market. Unfortunately, the foundation leadership hast it's obsessions and I think they stick on some non-standard choices to kind of maintain the software a side of the industry.
