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[–] • 10 pts 1y

I have some clients that are running into this. To say they're pissed is mild.

[–] • 4 pts 1y

Everyone in all the different industries that use CAD should fund an open source alternative.

I'm sure something like that must already exist but apparently it isn't built out enough.

[–] • 5 pts 1y

FreeCAD is the current contender.

https://www.freecad.org/

[–] • 2 pts 1y

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GEDA

For electronics at least, it's okay.

[–] • 1 pt 1y

Autodesk and Solidworks are both doing it.

You can keep the perpetual license for the older stuff, but there are no more upgrades like before. You pay SaaS.

[–] • 2 pts 1y

>You can keep the perpetual license for the older stuff

No, you can't. That is the point. The perpetual licenses are being disabled on the activation servers so that people can't even reinstall old versions on old computers that are already paid for. That is what is making this case especially controversial. People are ASSUMING, like you, that they can keep using the versions they already have, until they can't, and Autodesk tells them they have to pay a subscription license now to 'use' the perpetual license they already paid for.

[–] • 5 pts 1y

Horrible. It'd be great to see every customer donate the price of the subscription to advance a free software competitor.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts 1y

If only we could learn to vote with our wallets

[–] • 2 pts 1y

24 years ago I thought IT was a good field to get into. One that would always be in demand. That was stupid. I should have been a mechanic.

I hate what its become. It's all about nickle and diming people now...we've got a client that's on Google Workspace and uses Microsoft 365 for Office licensing. They have done an Office license audit 4 times since I started with this company because the costs are so high. They should just go Libre Office and be done with it. But everybody is addicted to the crack that is Outlook, which isn't that good when you compare it to something like eM Client. Have you fuckers seen the newest thing MS is pushing? So few people use Edge, that MS has added a "feature" to Outlook that opens links in Edge with the email to the side of the page. They've been rolling this out for a month or two now. No warnings, just walk in one day and boom any link you click on opens in Edge, damn your preferred defaults.

I go FOSS as much as I can with my stuff. These mega software corporations need to die, they are old and useless like Feinstein, McTurtle and Xiden at this point. Almost 30 years and you can't tell me why there hasn't been a serious competitor to Adobe, MS and Intuit in that time? The tech industry stinks.

Can't wait until all these companies that moved all their data to the cloud start losing access to their data because of Blackrock, State Street and Vanguard start flexing their muscles. Fucking greedy and lazy fucktards...if there's one thing to get upset at a different generation for, it is for allowing the banks to get so fucking powerful that they can kill a business by selling shares.

[–] • 2 pts 1y

Autodesk has done this for years. Users should have known better

[–] • 0 pt 1y

how many subscriptions will pay for the attorneys fees in the class action?

[–] • 0 pt 1y

You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

Changing from perpetual license to subscription, then SaaS, then SaaS with all data on the cloud... then, you can only log in if your personal Social Credit Score, and your company's ESG score is high enough (and the jews who run it will be mining all the data for IP that they can steal, as is their way).

Remember, in China, they have facial recognition cameras in which to get through a checkpoint, not only do you have to show your face, you have to "smile for the government". This, and worse is coming.

[–] • 0 pt 1y

Yes, it’s a bit of a jumble. The takeaway is that the same three (((companies))) own this one. Some very familiar names.

Top Institutional Holders for Autodesk

Holder Shares Date Reported % Out Value

Vanguard Group Inc 18,515,923 Mar 30, 2023 8.66% 3,878,345,355

Blackrock Inc. 17,097,545 Mar 30, 2023 8.00% 3,581,251,890

State Street Corporation 8,623,556 Mar 30, 2023 4.03% 1,806,290,097

Polen Capital Management, LLC 7,867,086 Mar 30, 2023 3.68% 1,647,839,886 Loomis Sayles & Company, LP 6,679,931 Mar 30, 2023 3.13% 1,399,178,392 FMR, LLC 5,617,823 Mar 30, 2023 2.63% 1,176,709,243 Aristotle Capital Management, LLC 4,908,306 Mar 30, 2023 2.30% 1,028,093,807 Brown Advisory Inc. 4,718,355 Mar 30, 2023 2.21% 988,306,669 Ninety One UK Ltd 4,360,842 Jun 29, 2023 2.04% 913,421,994 Geode Capital Management, LLC 3,993,264 Mar 30, 2023 1.87% 836,429,104