Dam. Finally someone else who did something similar. I also changed my focus into more GIS and programming oriented work because of AutoCAD being what it is. I like working on open source software because I don’t suddenly lose all my work because I ran out of license or left my job.
Autodesk was only an illustrative example, Solidworks and Onshape have similar price tags. Professional software outside of software development is highly specialized and very expensive. There wont be any open source equivalents for most of them for a very long time if ever. “You shouldn’t use proprietary software”, is easy to say when alternatives exists; but currently we don’t even have an FOSS alternative to Photoshop that creative workers are willing to use.
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Dam. Finally someone else who did something similar. I also changed my focus into more GIS and programming oriented work because of AutoCAD being what it is. I like working on open source software because I don’t suddenly lose all my work because I ran out of license or left my job.
Autodesk was only an illustrative example, Solidworks and Onshape have similar price tags. Professional software outside of software development is highly specialized and very expensive. There wont be any open source equivalents for most of them for a very long time if ever. “You shouldn’t use proprietary software”, is easy to say when alternatives exists; but currently we don’t even have an FOSS alternative to Photoshop that creative workers are willing to use.