Originally posted by The Architect
All Autodesk cares about is making lots of money as quick as possible like Microsoft. The camparison is flawless - they both buyout competitors, they both don't care about the quality of their products, they both are evil... the list is endless.
Business is business, the bigger a company becomes the more driven they are to get the cash, rarther than have happy customers, especially in the case of independant artists.
If you had a business you would want to try and either aquire your competitors or push them out (look at the oil, motor industries, medical etc industries), its simple economics not good vs evil.
Happymat - Hope you get a free upgrade, concidering that you have only just upgraded to 8. You might be lucky and uni might keep 8 concidering that they have only just upgraded as they might not justify the cash??
"No pressure, no diamonds" Thomas Carlyle