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Fusion 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
https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/personal/compar...
Subscriptions are a scam. I am actively consolidating my payments and shifting to next best alternatives that give me one time pay options or open source and contributing there.
I feel same about salaries. Paying monthly salary is a scam. Can I buy your time for life for a 1 time payment? But seriously, calling subscription a "scam" is very delusional. It seems like you have not released a product/saas. I support your effort in supporting and contributing to opensource though.
I think in this case it depends on perspective to describe whether or not something is a scam.
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> Autodesk is the oracle/adobe of the CAD world So many things come to mind with that one sentence, it's mesmerizing. I don't have a lot of direct exposure to Oracle, but I remember grief with Adobe and Autodesk products dating back to the 80s. My dad's company was light manufacturing. They used AutoCAD for various things and my dad became proficient enough that he started wanting to use it for various projects at ho…
I have this picture in my head of you holding a worklight above an open CPU case while your dad works to connect the drive.
Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.
Subscriptions are a scam. I am actively consolidating my payments and shifting to next best alternatives that give me one time pay options or open source and contributing there.
I feel same about salaries. Paying monthly salary is a scam. Can I buy your time for life for a 1 time payment? But seriously, calling subscription a "scam" is very delusional. It seems like you have not released a product/saas. I support your effort in supporting and contributing to opensource though.
It's absurdly unfair that I get to buy a door, a handgun, wire shelving, plumbing fixtures, etc, etc, for a 1 time payment.
It's wild to see all this churn in the markets as players bloom, ship product, and die within the year. It's so sad that they're evergreen (never before having released a product) and are leaving money on the table, dooming themselves to failure.
When will they learn that recurring revenue is the only way they'll stay in business? I'd like _someone_ to stick around long enough to honor my three, five, and ten-year warranties!
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~~They dropped the lifetime licensing but they didn’t force people into subscription.~~ ~~I know that LTT had such a license and made it a point to bring it up every time VMWare called them to turn it into a subscription.~~ I remembered wrong. :(
Pretty sure you're remembering TeamViewer instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRzaGUKEFA EDIT: Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30113513
What is the best (affordable!) CAD software for a hobbyist with no experience? I was recently looking into this and the leading software was like 6,000 USD a year per seat.
https://solidedge.siemens.com/en/solutions/users/hobbyists-a...
edit: also, Solvespace was mentioned upthread. It's pretty basic, but very nice and easy to use, and has good skill transfer to more featureful CAD programs.
It behaviour like this which makes people think that the high seas isnt actually such an unreasonable option.
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I am surprised VMWare didn’t do the same thing tbh.
Yet...
But in the CAD field, Autodesk is the clear winner here with no good alternatives, even you count in FreeCAD. It makes business sense for Autodesk to keep grabbing as much money as they could, so they can: 1) earn money, 2) add more features into their product to raise the bar higher. It's the same logic behind Adobe and maybe Microsoft, Apple, Google etc.
The good news is, at least you don't have to pay for Autodesk 3ds Max now since Blender. Maybe it could be more productive if we convert our hatreds towards greedy commercial software into supports (donate etc) towards free and opensource alternatives (FreeCAD etc in this case).
So maybe when next time someone wanted to say "fuck Autodesk", send $5 to FreeCAD instead (https://www.freecad.org/sponsor.php).