Autodesk eats Alias
Posted on Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 at 19:57.
Mac 3D and compositing artists should sit down before reading this news. Autodesk bought Alias. Autodesk is notoriously anti-Apple while Alias has enthusiastically brought more and more products to the Mac platform for the past five years.
You may want to send feedback to Autodesk
I just read about your buyout of Alias. Being that Autodesk has an unfortunate anti-Mac stance, I urge you to please continue Alias’ commitment to the Mac platform for Maya and MotionBuilder.
Autodesk had an online survey about 3 years ago, and it was gathering data for them to determine wether or not they should port their software to Mac OS X. I think it was posted on macslash.org. Perhaps a side-benefit of this acquisition is that they’ll actually have Mac programmers who know what they’re doing now.