a Louis Rossmann video.
Autodesk has used this business model since the start of the company.
Anyone remember the dongles?
He, no… we used Revit. We literally had to setup a windows server to run a DRM system that had to be online at least the last 24 hours.
Maybe it’s time to normalise OpenCAD and contribute to it.
Similarly with Adobe: they stopped updating purchased versions of Lightroom in 2016, and went to a subscription model. You could continue to use the purchased version if you wanted to–on a 32 bit machine.
Adobe has gotten so fucking lazy since they switched to a subscription model. Their software is barely getting meaningful updates any more.
In my opinion there’s a way out of this misery.
A) Establishing a potent counterpart. That could just be done by companies, hiring and paying full time devs to boost open projects like freecad. B) Redefine productiveness. If you have fast output at the beginning, but end in slavery with your intellectual portfolio (means: need to pay those rediculous license fees for your GBs of model data, because it’s in a propiatory format) you’re screwed.
Regain ownership of your models.
