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The War with the Customer

Way to keep up, Autodesk

March 30, 2012

I downloaded the Autodesk Maya 3D software package today, directly from Autodesk, and was dismayed to see this error when trying to install.

For those of you not in the know: the software goes so far as to have “2012” in the name, but it requires Mac OS X 10.4 (discontinued in 2007) or 10.5 (discontinued in 2009).

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