I think you can still purchase Soft as part of the Entertainment Creation Suite, but if you want an old version of XSI (pre-Autodesk), then no, you can't buy one. It's kinda worthless now, as there's no way to generate licenses anyway. Autodesk stopped support of the older versions a while back and warned people at the…
I disagree with this too! :D I think that most modeling tools in Max work much better than their Maya analogues, and I say that in an objective way, it's not my biased opinion, it's just how they work. That means faster times, and I didn't say anything yet about the modeling stack. For instance (I used Maya extensively…