Personally, I don't hold a grudge against anyone protecting his patented work. If you want to give it away for free, that's your choice.
Maybe Alter is a jerk, I've heard people not say many nice things about him over the years, I have no idea I don't know anything about the guy. However I do know a bunch of people who have created some amazing tools and as far as I am concerned I am all for them capitalizing on their work. When Movie Studios and Ad Agencies are making billions on the films and commercials they produce, so why not? You know what Joe Alter isn't doing? Crying over the fact that his rates are being cut or that his work is all being outsourced to some studio in China or India. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Raffaele Fragapane <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course he does, particularly with xGen going commercial. > He sued Disney over it and won an undisclosed settlement (it's not on record > whether it's royalties or a flat payment). > http://patentexaminer.org/2011/10/disney-sued-for-infringing-virtual-hair-raising-patent/ > > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Nick Angus <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am sure he still makes money from it with that obscure little patent he >> holds... >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Gardner >> Sent: Saturday, 10 August 2013 7:04 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Maya Xgen >> >> It beats having to pay Joe Alter for the privilege of having decent >> grooming tools... >> >> the xgen demo looks to be *ahem* a cut above shave's tools. (sorry) >> >> cheers, >> chrisg >> >> On 10 August 2013 15:22, Eric Lampi <[email protected]> wrote: >> > This just came across my feed on Facebook. It's so damned annoying to >> > see them make a huge deal out of this kind of pedestrian crap. OK the >> > hair stuff was nice, but is anyone really that impressed with a hair >> > styling tool? Exactly how often do you say to yourself "Oh no!! How am >> > I ever going to style the hair on these ALL of these characters!!??" >> > > > > -- > Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and > let them flee like the dogs they are!
