The reason people are angry is that immediately after the acquisition they
repeatedly assured everyone they wouldn't change the licensing model and
that nothing about eagle would change, that everything would remain
exactly the same.
Then a few months later they did exactly that. And didn't apologize for
lying.
-Dan
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017, 'Dave' via neonixie-l wrote:
Wow... guess I need to dig into the impact of this and NOT update my
current EAGLE version!
On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 9:21:24 AM UTC-4, Nick wrote:
As all Eagle users will know, Eagle was acquired from Premier Farnell at
the start of the year and Eagle 8, the new version, has a completely
different licensing model - it's now subscription based, starting at USD
15/pcm for the "standard" version and going up to USD 65/pcm for the
"professional" ones.
I'm a long-time Eagle user, probably for more than 15 years, so have a lot
invested in it in terms of libraries and existing designs.
However, I can stake USD 100/pa (the annual up-front cost of the USD
15/pcm option). but you need to be connected to the internet every couple
of weeks for your Eagle license to stay active. If it expires, I'm told
that you can still generate Gerbers from your old designs and even export
in the old V7 format using the free version - our old licenses and software
will keep working.
What have Eagle folk here done about this - just wondering... It annoys me
slightly, but I guess the previous licensing model was not paying the bills
and Autocad are promising great things...
Thoughts?
Nick
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