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Originally Posted by Mazin
If you weren't stuck with commercial software to begin with, then you wouldn't be stuck with these problems.
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You are not stuck with commercial software. No one is forcing you to use it. you are quite welcome to use your own intellect to create your own property that you can give away to the world.
You can start from scratch, or join a group of maintainers of some open source produce that you can then make better than anyone else's on the planet.
People do it all the time. Software isn't like oil or minerals. You don't dig it out of a mine. There is no cartel. It is purely the product of someones talents.
It is really quite that simple !!!
In the real world $ 3,500 is nothing compared to the cost of paying a commercial user of that software to work all year, plus their health plan and everything else.
In the real world, Autodesk has graciously allowed FIRST students to use their software for free so that the student can learn something. They don't even have to buy the educational version.
I am very curious how many FIRST teams can make effective use of more than 5 copies of 3dsmax. Most teams can barely use one copy.
If a team has that much animation work going on then the school should have a full up class on the subject and build and equip a lab to teach the course. And buy the equipment and software to get that done...
my $ 0.02