Re: Ancient lurker's response to the current developments

[Jason S]

Hi Stefan, If I can criticize your criticism, It does bring-up a number of not so great things about some clearly unfair behavior. Yet the piece proposes a very "unconstructive" form of criticism (just by the title itself, and the general tone),  While becoming angry -can- be a good thing (if not essential) when faced with situations that can be seen as not right, there should be a clear distinction between firmly voicing disapproval, and sheer lashing out. (the latter being well on the counter-productive side) Calling people liars, incompetent or painting an entire organization as a desease or cancer.. .. and you stated, "It was also the very first time I saw professionals use amounts of profanity on the list, in volume. " And when speaking about the (very) partial reversal, "The latter only came about after violent outbursts from the Softimage users, and rightly so." I would argue that (thankfully) most criticism put forth here up-til the reversal or otherwise, has been firm, respectful, thoughtful, fair and specific.  (for the very large majority of the volume) Otherwise welcome back! :) On 03/19/14 5:04, s...@animagic.net wrote: Hi All, Hi, I'm Stefan. Some of you may recognize my name, some of you might not. I think I might be an ancient "lurker" on the list here because I can't recall when last I posted anything to the list. I suspect it might have been sometime in the early 90's. I could look it up but I'd have to find some old archive somewhere in my backups. :-) The most recent events about Softimage, and now the outcry from 3ds max users about their "upgrade" along with many friends and old colleagues I've been talking to in the past week inspired me to write some of my thoughts down about what I see is happening and how I think Autodesk has passed the point of no-return when it comes to their position in the community (a large one which is still separated by products and their users). It's SFW but be prepared for some harsh paragraphs. http://www.stefandidak.com/2014/03/autodesk-the-metastasizing-cancer-of-the-3d-world/ Cheers, Stefan.