Studios and Clients, that's the problem. The guys at WETA for example, during downtime use Blender, but not for 'real' projects since then many of the other peeps in the pipeline wouldn't know what to do without spending a couple of months in learning everything.
Ok something doesn't seem quite right here. After extensive Googling it seems there's always been a fair bit of confusion between Autodesk, Resellers and potential Student 'Upgraders'. Some say you can upgrade to just Max/Maya, some say you can't and there doesn't seem to be concrete evidence either way. It seems nuts that…