Cheers to that Luc. Its a shame, because I do feel bad for people who
love the art of CG and want to have such powerful tools at their
fingertips for creating whatever they want but a package like XSI is
NOT the same as a nice canvas, set of oils or set of brushes. It
requires the hard work of many people and a lot of money to build and
as Luc stated, its built for the professional studio that is making a
profit. Simply put.....XSI is built for the artist....but its built
for the artist working under a studio or on their own to make money.
Kris
Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
This mailing list is going to hundreds of
professionals around the world and it
is for peer support between professionals using XSI. It would be best
if it weren't
used for demands for attention, demands for official responses, daily
fits.
This tools is needed to communicate with artists about their workflow
and production issues, this is what this tool was created for. There
are other
avenues to reach support and sales. If you don't get answers there,
it's
probably because there are many other users, all around the world who
also
have questions and issues.
I think you violated your XSI 5.0 Foundation license agreement by
installing it on multiple machines,
and now you're upset that 6.0 actually enforces this as a side effect
of introducing unified SPM
licensing, which is more convenient for studios, delivering QFEs,
etc. Fine, people get it. Point taken.
But I think no one can answer your grievance here. If anyone can, I
think they shouldn't be expected
to do so immediately during Christmas diner or during the release rush.
As far as I can tell the one
license per machine policy was published as far back as the Foundation
4.2 FAQ and has not
changed.
Softimage is not a consumer product, it's not designed and sold that
way, and
Foundation comes with strings attached. That's just the way it is; XSI
is an expensive
professional program and Foundation is grossly underpriced for what it
is.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Thomas Helzle
Posted At: Wed 12/27/2006 9:57 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Posted To: xsi
Subject: XSI Berlin Usergroup closed down.
Dear XSI Berlin Users:
I just deleted the mailinglist and the content of the xsi-berlin.org
homepage.
I am no longer available to organize or promote any events regarding
XSI.
Feel free to take over and create your own meetings.
I am very sorry since I had a lot of fun with some of you guys, but I
am finally pissed off enough with Softimage to let it go.
Carpe Diem,
Thomas Helzle
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