mbetke wrote:Autodesk will get what they want to. Imagine Refractive does not aggree to sell to Autodesk. Autodesk says "okay no problem. we can just phone our long term partner nvidia and they will change some tiny things ion their CUDA code so you guys have to rewrite your core again and make your product useless. But hey...you can sell us Octane for XXX dollars and have a nice life on Cayman Islands..."
I agree. However, I don't see Autodesk going after Octane. They have a long standing relationship with Mental Ray, and Mental Ray has the Quicksilver and iRay options...If they just want people off the market, they'd have bought out Bunkspeed and others already (at least, that'd be my guess).
Now, back to waiting patiently for the plugin release... ^_^