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For a freelancer (who works as a "little studio", not for a "big studio" )
it's impossible to buy several mental ray licenses.
For me, maintenance is our "little" contribution to the softimage perenity.
Less expensive maintenance means, more freelancers able to re-order it every
year.
However I don't think lower prices for mental ray "freelancer license"
possible. Educational license aren't use to earn money. And those
"freelancer licences" could be use in big studio without pb.
3Democracy is not true for the moment...
My two euros ( virtual euros are so easy to give :-) )
Cheers,
Guillaume Laforge
CG artist
www.vol2nuit.fr <http://www.vol2nuit.fr>
2005/5/27, tony@(protected) <tony@(protected)>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to work out who the best person is to speak to at softimage
> about
> licensing and maintenance.
>
> I'd like other peoples opinions on this too.
>
> I basically want to get a good discount on render licenses and
> maintenance.
> At the moment, Soft (and most other vendors) have two distinct price
> groups, one
> for the commercial sector (studios etc.) and one for the education sector
> (schools, students etc).
> The education sector enjoys massive discounts - a commercial license of
> xsi 4.2
> costs $6995. compare that to $295 for a teacher/student/institution
> (permenant)
> license.
>
> Now, I am freelancer. Since I earn my living using XSI, its only right and
> fair
> that I pay for it.
> However, I not a studio, nor a big earner of any sort. Yet I'm a little
> upset
> that I'm expected to have to pay full whack for software, render licenses
> and
> maintenance contracts.
> I'm finding it increasing difficult these days to justifiy to myself why I
> should be paying maintenance since I really get all the help I need from
> forums
> and list servers. Indeed, I don't think I've ever called soft support -
> just
> about the only benefit I get from having a maintenance contract is
> upgrades and
> patches.
> I got lucky recently and got my hands one a rack of dual proc render units
> for a
> really good price.
> But forking out for render licenses for it is going to cost a bomb (more
> than
> the renderfarm itself!).
> And these days lots of other vendors are starting to offer unlimited
> network
> rendering,
>
> So, what I want to ask the right person at Softimage is - what can you do
> to
> ease the financial burden on my shoulders?
> Is their any reward you can offer those individuals among us who did the
> honest
> thing and stumped up loads of cash to buy your software for our work,
> rather
> than take the easy route and use cr@(protected) software?
> Could you add another price group - freelancer rates - to your portfolio?
>
> Anyone know who I should talk to at Soft about this?
>
> What do other people think?
>
> cheers
> Tony
>
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<div>For a freelancer (who works as a "little studio", not for a
"big studio" ) it's impossible to buy several mental ray licenses.<
/div>
<div> </div>
<div>For me, maintenance is our "little" contribution to the 
;softimage perenity. Less expensive maintenance means, more
freelancers able to re-order it every year.</div>
<div>However I don't think lower prices for mental ray "freelancer license
" possible. Educational license aren't use to earn money. And those "
;freelancer licences" could be use in big studio without pb.
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>3Democracy is not true for the moment...</div>
<div> </div>
<div>My two euros ( virtual euros are so easy to give :-) )</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Cheers,</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Guillaume Laforge</div>
<div>CG artist</div>
<div><a href="http://www.vol2nuit.fr">www.vol2nuit.fr</a></div>
<div> <br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">2005/5/27, <a href="mailto:tony@(protected)">tony
@(protected)</a> <<a href="mailto:tony@(protected)">tony@(protected)</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0
.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi all,<br><br>I'm trying to work out who the
best person is to speak to at softimage about<br>licensing and maintenance.
<br><br>I'd like other peoples opinions on this too.<br><br>I  
;basically want to get a good discount on render licenses and maintenance.<br>At
the moment, Soft (and most other vendors) have two distinct price groups, one
<br>
for the commercial sector (studios etc.) and one for the education sector<br>
(schools, students etc).<br>The education sector enjoys massive discounts - a
commercial license of xsi 4.2<br>costs $6995. compare that to $295 for a
teacher/student/institution (permenant)
<br>license.<br><br>Now, I am freelancer. Since I earn my living using XSI, its
only right and fair<br>that I pay for it.<br>However, I not a studio, nor a big
earner of any sort. Yet I'm a little upset<br>that I'm expected to have to pay
full whack for software, render licenses and
<br>maintenance contracts.<br>I'm finding it increasing difficult these days to
justifiy to myself why I<br>should be paying maintenance since I really get all
the help I need from forums<br>and list servers. Indeed, I don't think I've
ever called soft support - just
<br>about the only benefit I get from having a maintenance contract is upgrades
and<br>patches.<br>I got lucky recently and got my hands one a rack of dual
proc render units for a<br>really good price.<br>But forking out for render
licenses for it is going to cost a bomb (more than
<br>the renderfarm itself!).<br>And these days lots of other vendors are
starting to offer unlimited network<br>rendering,<br><br>So, what I want to ask
the right person at Softimage is - what can you do to<br>ease the financial
burden on my shoulders?
<br>Is their any reward you can offer those individuals among us who did the
honest<br>thing and stumped up loads of cash to buy your software for our work,
rather<br>than take the easy route and use cr@(protected) software?<br>
Could you add another price group - freelancer rates - to your portfolio?<br>
<br>Anyone know who I should talk to at Soft about this?<br><br>What do other
people think?<br><br>cheers<br>Tony<br><br>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---
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