Am I the only one who does not understand what's said here?
I mean, it does not make any sense by 'I feel tricked by Softimage
regarding licensing issues'.
You don't go to the store and decide to buy or not buy a software
because of it's licensing methods.
Softimage (or any other developer company) is not obliged in anyway to
explain or publicize the
'new' licensing procedures they adapted to their potential customers.
It's what the individuals go and find out. That's why we have this super
community newsgroup for.
I mean by all this is please, with all due respect, stop ranting over
something that you think
you were 'cheated' but what I think 'tough luck', specially in this
newsgroup.
Would you please contact with Softimage direct since you're not sure
if anybody from Softimage is handling your problem officially.
I have tons of friends who just live with their shocking new licensing
methods
they didn't even dreamt of before buying the software.
Cheers and a Merry Christmas to all!
Eriya
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Thomas Helzle
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 7:25 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Foundation Licensing question
I would really love to get an official word on this:
Will it be possible to get a dongle for Foundation?
If not, I feel tricked into buying an update (from Foundation 5 to 6)
without having been able to make a learned decision since this new
licensing scheme wasn't made public in the pre-sale period.
Hard-node-locked software is unusable for me.
The USB Network Card idea is just as slippery.
So my only other option would be buying Essentials, which is much more
expensive now.
Believe it or not - I even thought about going to Essentials and had a
conversation with my local reseller (slash.de) some days before the
release about it, but decided against it in the end since I had already
bought the Foundation update from the Softimage store.
Honestly this is a big mess.
Playing this the hard way will not make Softimage look any better in my
book.
Customers are not enemies.
The only people having no problem with all this are the ones who don't
care for buying software anyway.
This is all upside down IMO.
Cheers,
Thomas Helzle
www.screendream.de
Am 23.12.2006, 21:02 Uhr, schrieb Stephen Blair
<Stephen_Blair(at)Softimage.COM>:
> I don't know what you mean by "usb network key".
>
> When you activate Foundation it is either tied to a [local] dongle or
> to your Ethernet card. No choices are offered.
>
> That's what I know about it.
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of phil harbath
> Sent: Sat 23 December 2006 1:30 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Foundation Licensing question
>
> i asked several soft people about the usb network key, and i can't
> seem to get an answer. the idea would be when installing you could
> choose from a list of network devices (if it isn't tied to other
> devices is another question). perhaps someone on this list knows that
> answer to that.
>
> phil
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