I hear you Tenshi. I'll answer your question with another question: "Question: Where does and 800 pound gorilla sit? Answer: anywhere it damn well pleases."
With Autodesk owning such a grossly disproportionate percentage of the market that one could contend borders on monopolistic and having used what could be argued as smacking of predacious practices to achieve their caustic cartel, they are more like an 800 ton gorilla. They have the money and power to do pretty much anything they want. From a business standpoint, i'm confident that it doesn't make sense for them to repay the loyalty of the Softimage community; especially since that loyalty lay with the an EOL IP and not with Autodesk themselves. Such an out-of-character, altruistic gesture as bestowing the benefit of a $1500 "farewell" Soft license would--apart from the prohibitive cost of disentangling their license from Maya/Max--be counter to their their goals, damage immediate bottom line. and surely would upset their board of directors. Several months back I was listening to an audiobook while commuting to work and the author was explaining that Progressive Corporation (insurance) turns potential customers away to their competitors sites in order to eliminate higher risk customers that are less-than-desirable from their portfolio. It would not surprise me at all if Autodesk was employing a similar tactic with the Soft user base. While this is a logical prospect it is, however, pure conjecture. On the bright side, there seem to be promising developments in packages such as Houdini and frameworks like Fabric. Cheers -=Eric “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”― Sun Tzu On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Tenshi . <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering, "What if" i tried to do some personal work with an > illegal softimage license for a product that is dead? Does AD police come > to my house? Or let's say..AD would not worry about it because they don't > believe in the "power" of Softimage, or i'm only in trouble if i use it for > commercial purposes? Can at least AD let us use it for personal purposes > or reels for example? (yes i know there's a student version). But.. "what > if". just saying.. > > Besides this whole situation THEY created is a disproportional mess from > every angle, at least they can try to open their bank account for a.. > $1500+ new perpetual license? I can't die without getting one.. is just > that paying $3500+ for something i will not use, damn... are companies this > days are playing "take it or leave it" ? > > > -- -=T=-
