Unaided, tienes razón.
Verás, desde el momento en que "Maurice Patel" en el mailing list, comenzó a responder preguntas, poco a poco ha ido soltando la verdad; así de simple. Pareciera el tipo en ocasiones quiere gritar "A AUTODESK NO LE IMPORTO SOFTIMAGE NUNCA".
Es una pena que tooodos esos post en dónde compartíamos lo que en esos tiempos era muy obvio; a día de hoy se haya convertido en realidad y lo que es peor aún que un miembro de Autodesk lo comience a divulgar abiertamente.
Quien ahora diga que Autodesk es una linda empresa, que piensa en los usuarios y tal; joooder que ceguera. xD
Pero como "mortales", no podemos hacer más que quejarnos, dejar de comprar software Autodesk, abrirle los ojos a quienes duermen, y buscar nuevos caminos sin dejar de pensar en nuestra vida.
En resumen Autode$k siempre será el diablo, y quien utilice sus productos sabrá que juega con fuego.
Hay que seguir adelante compañeros, y veamos el lado positivo; tenemos Softimage para rato
Una respuesta de Maurice Patel muy interesante.
"What we were trying to do was see if we could keep developing it more efficiently. Yes we were not planning on increasing investment in it and we never stated that we were. However we were trying to find solutions to continue development."
Otra respuesta interesante:
"We acquired Softimage for many reasons including a talented engineering team and the fact that they had great expertise creating IP like ICE that we wanted to leverage for projects like skyline
Open sourcing software would mean removing all parts of the IP that were licensed from third parties as well as Autodesk IP that we do not want to make public. This would require a lot of resources to do. And then we would have to fix it because with all that code missing it would not compile, and even if it did, it would not be the Softimage you know today. So open source is not really a serious proposal. It seems a great idea but it is completely impractical. Similarly selling it is not an option for similar reasons."