US court says Autodesk software is owned, not licensed
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Now at least I can sell those unused copies of AutoCAD.
http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=10421
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About time somebody slapped some reality into them
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RESULT!
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Great outcome for the little guy, but a fine print lesson for the giant. This does not mean Autodesk will change their ways but rather fine tune their legal mumbo jumbo.
Companies like Autodesk are not interested in the product but rather the domination. -
Good ruling.
But as solo says, Autodesk is big enough to put some legal guys on top of things to sort out a new 'license agreement'. One that will stretch the law to their benefit and drains the customers blood.To be continued...
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YESS!!!
What great news this is!! i would love to see ebay floded with lots of people selling their used autodesk stuff now.
I allways though that this law was wrong and made me feel like (some) software developers think they are better or more important than anyone else, better than architects (imagine not beeing able to resell your house because that "helps" architects getting more jobs, and keeping the prices for projects low), car manufacters/designers/engineers (not beeing able to resell your used car to "help" the market beeing competitive), eletronic engineers (imagine not beeing able to resell your used pc parts, phones, gadgets to "help" funding inovation research), etc etc.And they have to keep in mind that this prices will help people that other way woudn't have much chance to buy their software (frelancers like me could buy a used copy of 3DS for personal use/work for example). This can even helpe them raising the future user and updates buyers client base.
David
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I'm so sleepy that I only read: "Autodesk is owned".
I use DoubleCad XT whenever I have to edit .dwg files.
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@ecuadorian said:
I use DoubleCad XT whenever I have to edit .dwg files.
DoubleCAD is really nice, but only if you only use Windows. I swear by Ribbonsoft's QCad, which although only uses (for the moment anyway) DXF files, works wonderfully with SketchUp and is multiplatform (Linux, Windows, Mac etc). So though is StreamCAD, which has been coded by a disgruntled ex-Autodesk employee (read the fun story on the website; http://www.streamspace.com/). StreamCAD is also freeware for the time being.
For a few dollars more.....and for Mac only users, ilexsoft's HighDesign is really, really good, and many on their forum tend to use both HD and SU together.
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You can easily convert DWG to DXF and back with EveryDWG, a freeware app:
http://www.opendwg.org/guestfiles
It's for Windows but runs over WINE on Ubuntu, so perhaps you can make it run on OSX.Hey, we should start a thread called: "Software alternatives".
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