Autodesk criticised by 35 named architects (2020)

Post by DonHopkins » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 2:15 PM UTC

hawski wrote: post #39

oliwarner wrote: post #15

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Summoning Adobe to fix a monopoly feels... Perverse. At a technical level, they might have the chops to build something from scratch, but they've more than abused their market position over the last two decades. We don't need another standard without interop. Put the engineering into open source or open standards. We can't continue with software society relies on being locked in like this.

It reminds me about a story by Philip K. Dick - Autofab. It's a story about postapocaliptic world with automated factories that do not stop to work after the work causing trouble for people. People decide to make the factories fight with each other. Let's just say it doesn't end in a good way.

Post by webmobdev » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 2:18 PM UTC

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I wonder whether that has its downsides though - with Google, Apple etc. being involved in development I wonder whether that hollows out the core of participating developers and functionally makes the project dependent on paid employees.

Why would you conflate the benefits of open source with a requirement for the devs to not make money? My vision is completely the opposite, the more money we pump into open source the better. We have to get out of this idea that open source is only good (and pure) when it's some dev slaving away after hours.

Post by ebiester » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 2:41 PM UTC

taspeotis wrote: post #32

It's serving me source code... public function build_time_query( $column, $compare, $hour = null, $minute = null, $second = null ) { global $wpdb; // Have to have at least one. if ( ! isset( $hour ) && ! isset( $minute ) && ! isset( $second ) ) { return false; } What sort of failure mode causes a website to just dump the backend source? Oh it's PHP...

Post by Aperocky » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 2:46 PM UTC

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sherbondy wrote: post #25

One potential source of disruption here (though I’m sure many folks will likewise feel it is frustrating to be locked into a SaaS model), is we are starting to see several intriguing startups building browser-based CAD software that are serious contenders for “the Figma of Architecture/BIM” crown, with the likes of: Arcol ( http://arcol.io ), Infurnia ( https://www.infurnia.com/ ), Qonic ( https://www.qonic.com/ ), a…

> Autodesk or simply get acquired/assimilated This is not even a question, there is no room to wonder. Autodesk WILL buy and KILL whatever software that threatens its own. Even in 2008, they just bought and killed one of their competitor in VFX, Softimage. Assuring everyone they wont kill it. This was a big deal. And ofc they killed it, basically telling their customers to go learn Max or Maya.

Post by mxkopy » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 2:57 PM UTC

webmobdev wrote: post #64

ramblerman wrote: post #27

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Why would you conflate the benefits of open source with a requirement for the devs to not make money? My vision is completely the opposite, the more money we pump into open source the better. We have to get out of this idea that open source is only good (and pure) when it's some dev slaving away after hours.

> Why would you conflate the benefits of open source with a requirement for the devs to not make money? I don't think s/he meant that open source developers shouldn't make money. Just that sometime projects can be hijacked by those who pay the money. One genuine concern I can think of is if BigTech slowly pivots and slowly convert such projects into web applications that they can then rent as a service. Sure, one cou…