Wasn’t patents the excuse AD used to not sell it / Open source it ?
Softimage was bought and kept around until it could be killed because it wanted
what was inside the devs heads.
Think of it this way. Think of how much better Maya has become since Soft was
EOL’ed. Yes there are still underlying issues but it doesn’t totally suck the
big one out the box anymore.
From: Luc-Eric Rousseau [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 21 April 2016 2:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle
Oh my god, parents again? Patents are worth nothing if you are not in the
business of licensing patents, which Autodesk isn't in. Where these millions
dollar
patents exactly, and how is that worth 35 miliions? Hiring dozens of people in
one
shot plus a working business is worth millions, not some useless region dumb ass
patent they never used. Softimage`s I.P. was worth exactly zero.
On 21 April 2016 at 01:30, Guy Rabiller
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
All until Autodesk came.
Here is what happened in 2008:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=12030177&linkID=14271589
Then when Ronald Beirouti left (who created ICE), it was definitely the end of
ICE (and Softimage).
(https://groups.google.com/d/msg/xsi_list/ElbS6ZbjKEk/vMyh8CGhCpQJ)
Peoples still think Autodesk acquired Softimage from Avid for XSI or for the
developers team. It was all for the patents. The rest is "accessory".
How many patents Solid Angle had ?
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