im fine with most stuff like user groups but for them to use our site to announce product launches and then say we arent worth advertising their product is not cool. Its not something I want to do but when its the same people that say no to advertising we have no choice. If that were the case everyone would use our forums, news, tutorial links, and plugin sections to promote their products.
Softimage hasnt advertisement for more then 3 months in 7 years of us supporting their software. Remember lumis.com was first a softimage site 