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

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

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Post by rurban »

girvo wrote: post #101
_dain_ wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> and when was the last time you used a proprietary compiler other than MSVC? Yesterday, because embedded firmware development is pain writ large

True, on embedded you are stuck with gcc, clang or sdcc. All FOSS

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

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Post by Toutouxc »

immibis wrote: post #129
drumhead wrote: post #120

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

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Not that I disagree with you entirely, but please, Russia is killing and disfiguring men, women and children with rocket artillery, kidnapping kids, tearing families and human lives to pieces. The impact on Ukraine, now AND in the long run, is an will be enormous and absolutely incomparable to corporations screwing people up with subscriptions.

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Post by humanlion87 »

gymbeaux wrote: post #75

I’ve always pirated AutoCAD and will continue to do so. I use it occasionally and just for hobby stuff, nothing commercial. So why would I pay out the ass for that? Same story with Photoshop. Ohhhh it might contain malware… I don’t really give a damn because to me it’s the only option, paying $10, $20, $50/month for software I hardly use but still kind of need is not an option. Run pirated software in a containerized…

When you run the software in a VM of Windows, how do you provide access to the files that you want to edit? Do you have a shared volume between the host and the VM?

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Post by signaru »

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.

Put another way, I'm not sure what you would be paying for instead of using Audacity (for a full blown DAW, I'd still go with Reaper). I haven't used MuseScore in a long time (it was good enough for me back then), but it had also been improving a lot lately. And I don't know of anyone who still uses WinZip (though I still see WinRar on less savvy users).

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Post by blincoln »

gymbeaux wrote: post #75

I’ve always pirated AutoCAD and will continue to do so. I use it occasionally and just for hobby stuff, nothing commercial. So why would I pay out the ass for that? Same story with Photoshop. Ohhhh it might contain malware… I don’t really give a damn because to me it’s the only option, paying $10, $20, $50/month for software I hardly use but still kind of need is not an option. Run pirated software in a containerized…

You could also diff the binaries with the unmodified version. We did that at work once (on behalf of the publisher of the same software) and the cracked version was literally one byte different. Just to be sure, we also reverse-engineered that part of the code to see what the original vs. cracked logic did. No surprises, no malware, just skipping over the license check.

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Post by vachina »

gymbeaux wrote: post #75

I’ve always pirated AutoCAD and will continue to do so. I use it occasionally and just for hobby stuff, nothing commercial. So why would I pay out the ass for that? Same story with Photoshop. Ohhhh it might contain malware… I don’t really give a damn because to me it’s the only option, paying $10, $20, $50/month for software I hardly use but still kind of need is not an option. Run pirated software in a containerized…

I think it’s part of their plan to allow pirated versions of their software be distributed precisely because now you are semi proficient in the software, further solidifying their relevance.

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Post by jakeogh »

xvilka wrote: post #6

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

I just did a project in build123d, imho its drastically better than drawing in a gui. https://github.com/gumyr/build123d

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

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Post by dekhn »

jmartin2683 wrote: post #18

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

it's ~$500/year not $300/month.

For me it's worth it.

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

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Post by ushakov »

nirui wrote: post #130
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet...

Fun joke aside, I don't think that's really possible anymore since there are high quality opensource alternatives such as KVM (for server deployments) and Virtual Box (for end users). 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 fea…

> Autodesk is the clear winner here with no good alternatives

What about SolidWorks?

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