Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.
Has there ever been an example of an industry standard tool losing out to FOSS alternatives? Ever? There are reasons for that.
Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
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Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
#12Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.
Has there ever been an example of an industry standard tool losing out to FOSS alternatives? Ever? There are reasons for that.
Unix was a commercial standard that's lost out to Linux
Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
#13Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.
It's a challenge. Look at Linux vs Windows. Modern distros are a drop in replacement for Windows, minus the user hostility, yet people continue with Windows because change is hard, not to mention matching everyone else. So, even if OSS CAD became a drop in replacement for Autodesk, there's gotta be something extra to truly bite at Autodesk.
Which distributions? I switched some of my machines due to the increasing user hostility in Windows, but found it a big pain in the ass, even as a developer. And that's not even considering how many programs/games will only work on Windows.
Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
#14Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.
Has there ever been an example of an industry standard tool losing out to FOSS alternatives? Ever? There are reasons for that.
Many. Perforce to Git. Many proprietary mobile operating systems to Android (partly FOSS but still).
Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
#15Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.
It's a challenge. Look at Linux vs Windows. Modern distros are a drop in replacement for Windows, minus the user hostility, yet people continue with Windows because change is hard, not to mention matching everyone else. So, even if OSS CAD became a drop in replacement for Autodesk, there's gotta be something extra to truly bite at Autodesk.
I have been hearing this for 25 years now (no exaggeration). Not sure if distros are really as good now, because I gave up trying long time ago, but I suspect they still suck if you are not a very tech affine user. And I blame the Linux community for promising much more than they were able to deliver.
Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
#16Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.
Has there ever been an example of an industry standard tool losing out to FOSS alternatives? Ever? There are reasons for that.
20 years ago if you were serious about a system with an rdbms is was sybase or oracle. Now almost everything is postgres.
Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a challenge. Look at Linux vs Windows. Modern distros are a drop in replacement for Windows, minus the user hostility, yet people continue with Windows because change is hard, not to mention matching everyone else. So, even if OSS CAD became a drop in replacement for Autodesk, there's gotta be something extra to truly bite at Autodesk.
Which distributions? I switched some of my machines due to the increasing user hostility in Windows, but found it a big pain in the ass, even as a developer. And that's not even considering how many programs/games will only work on Windows.
I've had an easy install and daily use with Mint.
Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
#18Fusion 360 was the greatest bait and switch I’ve seen in a long time. Went from free for personal use to $300/mo to make it useful at all… right after everyone built their library of parts on the free version
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#19Just a reminder that Autodesk is the oracle/adobe of the CAD world, and this is just the way they always operated.
I am surprised VMWare didn’t do the same thing tbh.
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#20Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.
Has there ever been an example of an industry standard tool losing out to FOSS alternatives? Ever? There are reasons for that.
Postgresql and other OSS DBMS taking over Oracle?
Even inside of AWS there are people who believe FOSS will always eventually surpass proprietary software.