It is the equivalent of a country were all streets and roads are private. And that foundations not only are used for businesses but also for society. Our current problem is that almost all platforms are designed for profit but platforms, by definition, are foundations. The goal would be more aligned with citizens needs instead of maximizing profit.Īt the same time, companies can still capitalize on the different needs of the enterprise software.

Many institutions (schools, universities, or even the military) could spend resources on creating the tools that their students, and society as a whole can use. Maybe the solution is to remove part of the software from the market.

And, it makes a lot of economic sense.Īs, I think that capitalism works. You get a customer base, but as your company grows you leave the less profitable customers behind.

Because that is how basically business work. I dunno, really.> I'm sick of companies building their products off the backs of the personal/hobbiest/small business market, and then when they get enough recognition and buzz, switch to essentially an 'enterprise-only' pricing structure, completely screwing over the users who made them successful in the first place.Īs someone said on the Internet, what you are sick of is capitalism. Seems like about all most people can really do right now is suck it up, pay the $300, and try and find something to migrate to over the next year. Alibre Design Professional is a $1000 perpetual license for all the same features, which seems doable, but it's at least the same amount again for CAM from say MecSoft or someone, which is.

I hear a lot about BobCAD, I don't see any pricing on their site, though it looks like Google scraped it once and it's in the mid-four-figures. I think they're TRYING to make it so that people can't realistically arrange alternatives before the deadline, forcing them to buy at least a year of commercial single-user, maybe to juice the quarterly earnings report at a time when everyone's down on revenue because so many people have paused payments and they have that ludicrously inflated stock price to try and justify.Īdobe ended up creating Affinity with this type of behaviour, maybe something similar will happen here. Yeah it's the lack of notice that's the real kick in the pants.

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