...and he seems happier than a pig in muck.."...lol.. fantastic. (questa รจ fighissima! ehehe)..
I think Mihai is showing what everyone has inside, in this moment. And he's showing what users (people generally) understand when promises are made and destroyed soon after (also when made various times and in public). And, even if different ways of talking could be used in discussion, there are very few ways to let pass how strong a feeling is, despite the words. It's thank to the strong passion in showing what the damage has been that AD changed the licensing policy after really few days. If people would enough silently accepted that, AD would never changed it. If they really did ponderate the killing of Softimage, why they didn't ponderate to not create that stupid (before today) statement about subcription, licensing after 2016 etc? Simply because they can't. And it shows more the brains behind their decisions. The observation of how you can trust someone who, after it's company did a such dumb thing and still talking for that company, is not something to undervalue. Everyone have to eat and whatever, and it's ok, but it means that moral and ethic can just be canceled in discussion, and sure you cannot trust anyone anymore (in this case for what concern AD). So, don't stay there in underline a language, then. This is the smallest problem. Of course those are all lies. With Softimage losing money? They never really tried to push Softimage. They say now "...we are listening"?. Why never listened in 5 years the request to show Softimage more? Not even a simple "Softimage" link in the drop down menu on the website. They bought Softimage to kill it (everyone..EVERY user from every different software knew that since years) and grabbing its technology. But now thay are asking to SI users what to put in Maya to make it more powerful and appealing for us. Yeah...."thanks"?.. The reality is they have fear. Maybe some kind of meteor passing above the AD HQ let them awake a bit. They saw like companies like SideFX are really welcoming SI users and willing to improve their product in the respect of SI users suggestions. And I'm glad of it. One friend of mine told me an Autodesk employes said the internal discussion was "there can be only one". The strange thing is that this AD man was saying it was more probable to be 3DSMax. Well things change. For what it worths, I really think AD is preparing the 4th 3D product to rule them all. Just speculation, of course, like it was the Softimage death, some years ago...
