Yes the frustration is natural - I understand that If only the world were simple and clear cut :(. Neither A nor B is an adequate description of what happened and what did includes aspects of both. Also I would not say we put 100% of our effort into Softimage. That was never the case, we are always balancing efforts. Softimage was run as a separate division at Avid and was 100% focused on its products pre-acquisition - but they had also had to make some tough decisions to EOL some of their products. But yes that 100% focus was lost when it was acquired as it is for any company that gets acquired. No-one wanted to cause hardship to any of our users (3ds Max, Maya or Softimage). The dynamics of human systems are chaotic, it is never possible to fully predict outcomes. Maurice
Maurice Patel Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 4:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass You do see the frustration here, right Maurice? By nature I'd say most Softimage users are very logical, straight forward, thinking individuals who quite often either own their own business or work as freelancers and therefore have a good understanding of how to run a business. Every reason given so far for this entire situation seems to fall under the concept of "plausible deniability" because otherwise none of it makes sense. You have to believe that Softimage either A. had an incredible string of bad luck which, despite Autodesk giving 100% of it's effort to develop, market and sell the product, caused it to fail. or B. Autodesk bought Softimage for it's patents, technology and developers, then intentionally marginalized Softimage to the point of where a business case could be made to shut it down and force users to move to Maya. -Paul "I think...a more reasonable view...[is] trying to allow customers to do what they want to do instead of being heavy-handed and forcing customers to do things that are in their best interest." - Carl Bass On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Maurice Patel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: No, and we are going round in circles as multiple topics are getting meshed together. I doubt anything I can write will make you less furious. If you want to talk I am open to that. maurice Maurice Patel Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134<tel:514%20954-7134> -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Bk Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 3:55 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass So from the outset, you bought Softimage with the view to take all the engineers from it and put them onto another product? If that is the case why not just be upfront about it and say this was your 5 year plan instead of pretending you respected the userbase and pretending wanted to continue Softimage, then suddenly giving a months notice regarding the purchases of new licences? Ive been frantic all month trying to figure out what I can or can't do with my new as yet unformed company regarding buying licences. I'm sorry, but I'm still furious.
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