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On 03/09/14 0:42, Chris Covelli wrote:
@Maurice,
I cant speak to Emilio or Daniel's seriousness about this question,(
although I wouldn't doubt their sincerity right out of the gate either
), but how would someone inquire about this?
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On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Maurice Patel
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Emilio,
If you are even remotely serious about this, which it appears not,
this is not the right way to even begin going about having such a
discussion so don't expect any answer to the question here from
Autodesk.
Maurice
Maurice Patel
Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 <tel:514%20954-7134>
From: [email protected]
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<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of
Emilio Hernandez
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 12:19 AM
To: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: Re: The one question I have not seen asked: Autodesk,
what's your price?
Yes Autodesk, tell us what is your price?
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Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation.
2014-03-08 22:44 GMT-06:00 Andres Stephens <[email protected]
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<mailto:[email protected]>>>:
Curious proposition, if I could contribute in some way, I will.
But I like the proposition.
From: Daniel G<mailto:[email protected]
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Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2014 22:47
To: [email protected]
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Everyone has a price.
Can we all agree that if somebody offered Autodesk $100 million,
they would sell Softimage in a heartbeat? Their shareholders would
demand it.
Okay. So somewhere between zero and $100 million is the real,
magic number. We have only to get somebody at Autodesk to put it
in writing -- or somehow appeal to the shareholders directly.
The network of people and studios who are very upset about this is
already significant, and they have the collective ability to put
together and disseminate perhaps the most polished crowdfunding
campaign the world has ever seen.
Keep in mind that not only would existing customers contribute,
but also many champions of open source and lovers of computer
graphics would help to expose SI's source code to the light of day
-- the kind of money you couldn't get ahold of by trying to raise
money the conventional way, for a conventional company.
For those who've already given up: at some point we (as a culture,
as a species) have to move beyond raw, unthinking capitalism. Far
from an isolated casualty, this is yet another example where
humans reflexively decide they have no power in the face of an
impersonal corporation.
It is simply not right for a company to take possession of
something loved by so many only to bury it in the ground, for no
other reason than PROFIT. It's all "just" bits on a hard drive,
and there's no reason it can't be out in the wild helping people
to create beautiful things. The fact that so many are just rolling
over and giving up, as if this is perfectly acceptable behavior
for a company in the year 2014, is the real tragedy here.
And for anybody who maintains that Autodesk would never part with
SI due to patents -- Google has already set a precedent for this:
https://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/pledge/ . Autodesk could
similarly pledge not to enforce its Softimage-related patents so
long as nobody tries to re-commercialize anything deriving from
the source code. Win-win.
Autodesk, what is your price?
