"The biggest problem with the beginners free trial is that its way too short, and a couple of them are downright insulting in their insistence to sell you a real licence when the 30 days has expired, Draftsight and Solidworks are both guilty of the extreme hard sell."
I haven't found that true with Draftsight. I do get emails from them urging me to upgrade which I simply ignore. On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 1:18 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Saturday 23 March 2019 13:47:27 Rafael Skodlar wrote: > > > On 3/22/19 2:14 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > > Anyone on here have opinions on Fusion 360 Cad/Cam by Autodesk? > > > > Opinions is one thing, experience is another. After few mentions about > > Fusion on this mailing list in the past I briefly looked at it and > > that was it. Anything from here is my _opinion_ based on a lot of > > experience. > > > > Any engineer worth his keep ran CAD CAM programs on minicomputers of > > some kind; Digital, HP, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems. All that > > kept healthy competition going until it became bastardized with ports > > to Windows". > > Anybody or a company that is so narrow minded to produce their > > software product for one crappy OS is STUPID! They are under false > > impression that "free software" is only free in terms of $$$ so > > there's no money in it. Wrong! We proved this time and time again, > > free software is free as freedom which is not necessarily absolutely > > free and run if there is any grain of decency in for profit user. > > > > Last week of February this year I "celebrated my 25 years of Linux" > > with creating a wiki page on internal site at work. In there I > > described my experience and inserted numerous pictures of Linux > > distributions I bought in the past. First was a set of 49 floppy disks > > from Linux Systems Labs which besides at home, I also installed it at > > National semiconductor as the first Linux server. That was running at > > least two more years I was told after I left the company. Why stay > > when the manager told me there is no future in Linux. She sent me to > > "Windows 95 reeducation camp" in San Francisco that year. > > > > My Linux experience helped me find interesting jobs because I kept > > supporting and studying it with buying 6CD set from ImageMagic, > > Progeny Linux, Redhat, Mandrake, etc. and FreeBSD. > > > > I believe that if I use "free software" of some kind commercially I > > have a moral obligation to contribute in some way and I encouraged > > that at different work places. One of my managers approved purchasing > > GNU package for Windows in late 90s. > > > > I would call "greedy bastard" anybody that would run a "(machine shop) > > of some kind making huge profits with free software without providing > > some kind of support to people that developed it. Send them $$$ or > > invite them to your shop for consulting; travel expenses included. > > That would give you bragging rights to advertise "We actively support > > <whatever software or product>" on your main web page. > > > > A number of us, members of Silicon Valley Linux Users Group, > > volunteered for years installing Linux on personal computers for those > > who brought them to Linux Install-fest organized at Cisco, North San > > Jose. This was a good will to software developers mainly so that they > > would be encouraged to develop software for/on Linux platform. > > > > There is a number of good examples of software projects that started > > as open source and evolved into commercially supported version with > > proprietary enhancements only available for $$$. I have no problem > > with that as long as the data and config file formats remain > > compatible with free version. > > > Hear hear! > > > This kind of "business model" allows people to learn basics of a > > software product for free then switch to commercial version (because > > they know it) for profit. > > The biggest problem with the beginners free trial is that its way too > short, and a couple of them are downright insulting in their insistence > to sell you a real licence when the 30 days has expired, Draftsight and > Solidworks are both guilty of the extreme hard sell. > > > My conclusion after reading long thread that grew out from "Fusion > > 360" is ConFusion. Now I wonder about their Eagle acquisition also. "2 > > schematic sheets, 2 signal layers, and an 80cm2 board area." PCB with > > 80cm2 only? Really? > > Sorry, but Autodesk "embrace and extinguish" business model is not for > > me. > > Aha, that explains why 7.2 files can no longer be loaded into 7.5, and > while 7.5 looks a lot like 7.2, but its nowhere near 7.2's ability. Mass > confusion is more like it. E.,E., & E. at work. Looking at the license, > I've not bothered to DL anything newer. Talk about self inflicted foot > wounds, theres an example. Gotta learn geda and friends I guess. > > Thanks Rafael Skodlar > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." -Kenneth Boulding, economist Corporations are NOT people and money is NOT speech! _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
