Nicely said, Matt, even though I really doubt Autodesk can understand
what you /really/ mean, even in theory.
I have had a Softimage license since Softimage|3D v.3.5 and was always
able to run the newest version and /whatever/ older version
simultaneously... for example to exchange/port data via copy/paste or
the like.
Guess when that did not work any more?
Till now I have not been able to understand what kind of bloody benefit
Autodesk might have by not letting me run for example Softimage 2012
_and_ 2014 at the same time on the same machine... even though I paid
money for both licenses. Beats me.
It's just sad and pathetic.