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

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These companies are doing well and making billions. We can assume that we will see more similar ones, as long as users still use their products in similar situations.

no, it is more like this. Imagine building a great city. Each group decides what they would like to make, and their skills. One group decides to make a "book press" , where all the parts of making a paper book are improved. A different group decides to make a lock and key system, so that any time a city person wants to read a book, any book, they must use a key for that lock system. The City government over time is i…

I saw this described as the conflict between business and industry.

Industry is making things. Books, food, video games, computers, petrochemicals.

Business is getting money.

Business strangles industry to death all the time.

The only thing we can do about it is make things that can't possibly be monetized. This is relatively easy in software - but still hard. Linux succeeded, and nobody pays for Solaris. Git succeeded, and nobody pays for Bitkeeper. One day there will be an open source equivalent to Autodesk and nobody will make money selling Autodesk equivalents, but the world will be better off.

But the people who make these things won't be rewarded, because they won't be doing business. Indeed, in many cases they'll go straight to prison.

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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.

You can buy my work for this month and pay me once. If you would like my newer, additional work, you’ll have to pay me again. Incidentally, because I’m nice I’ll let you keep the work I already did for you without charging you again for it. I think in this case it depends on perspective to describe whether or not something is a scam.

This is why you are not a billionaire. I say quid pro quo. Normal people can pay for your work - but billionaires have to buy repeating subscriptions.

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I believe you can run a cracked version legally in the US provided it gives you the same functionality as what you had licensed, you aren't so much "circumventing a technological measure" but instead making it work correctly per the terms of your license.

Isn’t circumventing/“cracking” DRM a crime in it’s own right in the US?

Yes, it is. Thanks to Hollywood it's illegal to circumvent a technological protection measure even if the technological protection measure is preventing you from getting what you paid for.

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For Australians, if you are affected, this is the kind of issue that should be raised with ACCC at https://www.accc.gov.au/about-us/contact-us/report-a-consume... . It falls under the Australian Consumer Protection under misleading or deceptive conduct.[0] A lifetime licence marketed as such cannot be withdrawn let alone with EULA/TOS presented after the purchase.[1] Probably could also get your money back from the r…

Are people/orgs who file such complaints legally protected from retaliation? For instance, might Autodesk respond by giving complainants a full refund and a lifetime ban from their products?

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

There is also a new competitor written in Lazarus/FPC - ZCAD[1]. Looks barebones for now, but nevertheless interesting. [1] https://github.com/zamtmn/zcad

Looking through the features and issues, it looks like this is a 2D CAD program, like AutoCAD or LibreCAD, instead of a 3D parametric CAD program.

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

Has any tried SolveSpace? https://solvespace.com/index.pl I'm considering digging in.

It would be nice if I could scale the UI. Some text can be scaled with GDK environment variables, but not the icons.

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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.

I try to use freeCAD whenever possible. I'm not a professional level, and assemblies are a bit scary, but its overall a nice tool. Just the other day I cloned one of these[1] in freecad using the image importing and scaling, quickly made a trace, added a pad and some chamfers, and had it on the 3d printer in about 25 minutes. I'd love if FreeCAD got a benefactor like you mention. [1] https://www.amazon.com/TILISMA-Bo…

I tried FreeCAD but all versions crash within minutes of using it, making it unusable.

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

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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 feel as you do, except about all durable goods. 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.…

Unauthorized Bread by Cory Doctorow is a relevant read here.

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Just a small reminder than Blender is so amazing now that AAA studios have started to use it.

Blender is absolutely amazing, but for the sequencer I had to switch to Resolve because it's just too slow. 1.5 hour long video takes 12 hours to render in blender and about 40 minutes in resolve, with just a simple chroma key processing.

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It behaviour like this which makes people think that the high seas isnt actually such an unreasonable option.

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> Corporations are doing that to us, but way more subtly, but with no less of an impact in the long run

Corporations generally don't send a missile into a pizza shop to kill two 15 year old twins, or send conscripts into battle and shoot at them if they retreat.

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