________________________________ From: Ed Manning [[email protected]] Sent: 04 March 2014 05:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Softimage Devs petition
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Sebastien Sterling <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Nex, Bitfrost, moving the soft team onto maya, the new look of the node editor, i'd say they are doing some pretty desperat "folding", however both your options whether selective asimilation, or abandone mont have the same outcome. softimage gets the shaft. Not Softimage. Softimage *users* get the shaft. Every one of us. Well spoken! --snip Back in the 80s, there was a T-shirt that read: "IBM -- weak as a kitten, dumb as a sack of hammers." Sadly that lingered on to kill a great OS. Warp had the potential to do so much , but was managed just as badly ;( Unfortunately, AD isn't weak, but more unfortunately, it's far dumber when it comes to the M&E space than any self-respecting sack of hammers. Yes, it's a hard business. So the thing to do would be to leave it to people who know what to do with it, not break the entire industry so badly that no one can fix it. M&E isnt its core business either. They are trying to apply principles from their main streams and it just doesnt work. I'm venting, obviously. Perhaps my fears will all be laid to rest by the release of an amazing new Soft-inflected version of "Maya" that will fix all the crippling workflow issues and also whiten my teeth. But I'm not holding my breath. There better be some pretty decent compensatory license deals, or I smell class-action. Amen. Who's going to do "Hitler reacts to Autodesk's killing of Softimage?" The only problem is the wealth of material that will need to be trimmed down. hahaha ;) <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. </span></font></td> </tr> </table>
