I don't know if it's clear, but AD already reverted the decision of timebombing licences tied to a suite, so you already get a perpetual concurrent licence of Soft if you downgrade to Maya.
The problem, and something worth fighting for IMO, is expanding, since no new seats will be available for purchase no matter what dark god you sacrifice small animals to. Asking AD for continued life support coupled with Soft bundled with Maya/Max mutually exclusive tokens though would be useful and not unreasonable. They had that courtesy for quite a while with Toxic, which frankly speaking was both a preannounced stillborn failure, and an absolute crock of shit. Reserving at least the same degree of respect for something that was still vital, adopted, at the foundation of many people's livelihood, not to mention a piece of history instead of crap doesn't sound like too much to ask. If people stopped for a minute to spit and spout in the face of any AD employee around and start asking for reasonable things we might actually still get something out of this, much like the (truly retarded) time bomb decision was reverted in 48h, something unprecedented for Autodesk. I'm not suggesting people bend over and take up the rear entrance with a smile on their face, but you can be a contrary arsehole and make sure we all get nothing so your righteous sense of software justice is appeased, or we can negotiate some minimal insurance for running and near future projects while looking at other solutions. P.S. with you I don't mean whoever e-mail will be before mine in this thread, I mean in general terms. Still "ducking" hating having to write to the list from a phone
