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Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]
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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.
if the Dutch East India company had missiles it probably would have
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Has any tried SolveSpace? https://solvespace.com/index.pl I'm considering digging in.
I love solvespace. I basically only use solvespace now. It’s very lightweight and minimalistic, but it’s not the easiest to use and very bare bones. I often have to find new ways of building things to account for the lack of functions, such as filleting an edge. In a way it’s a good thing because it’s hard to over complicate a design with unnecessary features, which I tend to do, but my designs in solvespace aren’t a…
That actually sounds like a pretty positive review. Have you done anything with the gcode paths?
I guess one just works through the tutorials until you on your own.
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There is nowhere in the world that police don’t have better things to do than to raid a shop using pirated software.
The more likely scenario, at least in the US, is that if your business is already using some legit licensed software from the same publisher, the publisher invokes a contractual right to audit licenses at your business. They find a bunch of unlicensed copies, and send you a huge bill. No police, just a civil matter, but potentially very expensive for the business. When I still did systems engineering work (2001-2011)…
The BSA runs a "snitch" program that disgruntled employees and competitors can use to report pirated software. This is how many businesses get raided. The person that I know also suspects that his company got raided because someone reported them.
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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?
SolidWorks (and Catia upmarket), Siemens NX are the two most popular in the field that Inventor/Fusion plays in. 2d Autocad is pretty entrenched in some industries with no real competition.
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It's not wise to use cracked software for business. Someone might talk, and your office could get raided by the cops. Yes - that happens in places like Eastern Europe too - some people that I know found this out the hard way.
Where in Eastern Europe? Pretty sure in Romania police have better things to do than raid you for using pirated software at work.
The BSA has been active here for more than 2 decades now. And they cooperate with local law enforcement. Pirated software can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars - so the cops simply can't ignore financial crimes this big.
I've also heard that they ignore stuff like music and movies on those PCs, because it's too much work to prove whether they are legal or not, and they cost peanuts compared to stuff like AutoCAD licences.
But with software - you only have to ask the accounting department for receipts.
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#169Time to invest the comparable amount of money in FOSS alternatives? FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BRL-CAD, and so on.
I recently came across CadZinho (https://github.com/zecruel/CadZinho), which is MIT-licensed, cross-platform (also works in a browser) and uses Lua as its extension language.
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#170Time 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.
IE lost to Chrome/Chromium and Firefox. Windows Media Player lost to VLC and MPC-HC. BandiCam and FRAPS lost to OBS. The GIF format lost to PNG (for non-animated images).
It's rare, but not impossible.