Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video] • Hacker News Board

Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]

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Post by Ballas » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 12:35 PM UTC

squarefoot wrote: post #23

CodesInChaos wrote: post #13

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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.

Give Manjaro a try. Not perfect but on all hardware I installed it ran flawlessly with all hardware detected out of the box with no need to install anything, either from a CD or online. Only single exception being a big network printer (Canon, IIRC) which in the end only required to go to openprinting.org, download the relevand ppd (just a few kbytes) and give it to Cups when configuring the new printer, which was al…

I am a big fan of Manjaro as a distro, but I would not recommend it to someone coming from Windows simply because things move fast and break - I've personally had proprietary software that worked at first, but later broke because libc had moved on. My solution (after trying plenty of workarounds) was to run it in an Ubuntu docker, but that upgrade cost me a lot of time and I don't expect somebody coming from Windows to put up with that much pain.

I also don't want to recommend Ubuntu (if I had to pick a single reason it would be snap), but from a problem-googleability-index point of view, it's hard to beat. Perhaps Mint, because it's mostly Ubuntu, but without snap (last I checked).

Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]

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Post by zirgs » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 12:35 PM UTC

xvilka wrote: post #6

Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.

Thank god there's Blender so 3D artists don't have to pay the ridiculous price for 3ds max and Maya. (Why the hell was Autodesk allowed to buy Maya?)

Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]

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Post by ChuckNorris89 » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 12:37 PM UTC

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #19

wakeupcall wrote: post #9

Just 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.

Yet...

Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]

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Post by zirgs » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 12:38 PM UTC

j-bos wrote: post #8

xvilka wrote: post #6

Time 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.

When I last tried to use Linux - I was not able to install GPU drivers without using the terminal.

Sorry, but that's not a drop-in replacement.

Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 12:39 PM UTC

LocalH wrote: post #29

shizcakes wrote: post #26

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This does not pass the sniff test. Can you cite a reputable source outlining supporting case law?

Regardless, if you have a legitimate license, and they pull this shit, you have the moral right to ensure that you can still use the license you hold. So, crack the shit out of it.

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Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]

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Post by Pet_Ant » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 12:40 PM UTC

theanonymousone wrote: post #39

This reminds me of a café in Lausanne that started operations by selling lifetime, three-coffees-per-month subscriptions, and then after a year or so "management changed" and they annulled all subscriptions:D

I mean often “management changed” often means the company went out of business and someone bought it and is giving it a go themselves. This is a bit deceptive, but it’s really a new company often.

Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]

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Post by _dain_ » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 12:41 PM UTC

bearmode wrote: post #11

xvilka wrote: post #6

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.

linux, git, ffmpeg, arguably postgres and sqlite, blender may get there someday.

old school statistical/scientific software offerings like SPSS, Stata, Matlab have been mostly buried by R and Python.

and when was the last time you used a proprietary compiler other than MSVC?

Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]

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Post by Zambyte » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 12:43 PM UTC

zirgs wrote: post #44

j-bos wrote: post #8

Earlier 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.

When I last tried to use Linux - I was not able to install GPU drivers without using the terminal. Sorry, but that's not a drop-in replacement.

Most GPUs have their drivers already built in - unlike on Windows. If you need proprietary Nvidia drivers, on most distros you just need to open the software center, search "nvidia" and click install.

Honestly in this regard, Windows struggles to be a drop in replacement for Linux, not the other way around.

Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]

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Post by amelius » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 12:43 PM UTC

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #10

xvilka wrote: post #6

Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.

FreeCAD is the closest, but unlike the Eagle vs Kicad comparison, it's miles behind Inventor and Solid works. I just bought a lifetime license for Alibre CAD, it's for profit closed source but much more usable. FreeCAD needs a benefactor like CERN for KiCAD to bring it up to speed.

Any recommendations for MacOS?

Re: Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]

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Post by ZoF » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 12:47 PM UTC

zirgs wrote: post #44

j-bos wrote: post #8

Earlier 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.

When I last tried to use Linux - I was not able to install GPU drivers without using the terminal. Sorry, but that's not a drop-in replacement.

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