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Actually, most of the people who responded to you were just plain users, not developers. The only developers that I saw respond were Yost, Schreiber, and us. >> You may update them for free, but they don't do me any good unless I can >> use them. If you are talking about our routines, they _all_ work the same in R3 as they did in R2. When I said we will enhance them, we will add features that R3 allows us to do that R2 didn't. As I said, if you need someone else's routine that only works today in R2, then use R2 for the effect! >> Well, if we multiply a number of something like 1800 times a number of >> something like 250,000, we come up with a number in the neighborhood of >> 450 million don't we? I have no idea where you are getting your numbers from, but if 250,000 was supposed to be the amount of 3DS packages sold, you are off by a full decimal point! Gary just stated that there were 25,000 sold, not 250,000! That makes only $45 million, which is not a lot for development of three full releases, marketing, and support of a product like 3D Studio! Now if you want to talk about AutoCAD's 1/2 million+ users, that is another story! But 3DS has nowhere near that kind of market! (unfortunately for you and me and Gary and Autodesk!) >> Greg, I haven't run into an AutoCAD user/owner yet that doesn't agree >> that that's what has kept AutoCAD's interface so difficult to operate >> and backwards to work with. Well, as one 10 year user (long before I became associated with Autodesk selling the product) I always appreciated the extensability of the interface! And most of the people I deal with do, also! And over 1/2 million repeat buyers of the product must agree to some point, too! >> There are far too many who exchange warm fuzzies while kissing up to >> receive free beta software, while privately probably holding some of the >> same beliefs. I personally know many of those who have beta'd 3DS3, and I don't know of a single one who wouldn't give _painfully_ honest response to Gary about new features or the way the product works. Up to this comment, I thought we were having a professional disagreement on the way the program operated, which I will argue from both sides (depending on the feature) as you and everyone else has seen on theis board. I don't know how the beta testers feel, but I know that if I thought that this comment was directed in my direction I would be extremely insulted! I'm just glad you didn't add dealers and developers to this group.