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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.