The problem is keeping Fusion 360 going does requires about 40 full-time staff. Fusion 360 has about a 6% or 7% market share but the vast majority of users are not paying. The company can afford the loss because they also sell Autocad.
The problem with open source CAD is you need a sponsor. The best example is when KiCAD picked on CERN (The big European physic lab) as a paying sponsor. The quality of KiCAD jumped upward dramatically when they were able to hire full-time people. Also, professional users want professional-level support. You can be paying a $120K/year engineer to post questions on public forums and hope some other engineer is able to help. It is worth paying for tech support if your users are on salary. Many people here, I assume have never seen good, first-tier technical support. I used to write software and many times I'd fly out to the user's site in Europe, the US, or Korea and just talk to them about what they needed and watch them work. Our customers paid 7 or 8 digit prices and got what they asked for and quite a lot more. Even open source projects need money coming in. The big ones find ways to generate income, usually by consulting work. On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:12 AM N <nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > ... > > > > I used to use Fusion 360 ... I wasn�t prepared to pay the $50 per > month so I lost all my > > > > Fusion drawings. Be careful!!! > > > > > > I had the same issue with Alibre once, so don't really trust them > either. > > > > > As was expected, I believe AlibreCAD was always designed to be sold. > > They need some way to earn money as everyone else but it's not possible to > write some software and live on it forever, over time it is leaning towards > open source. Maybe with some luck it will be possible to work shorter days > then there is less need to write new software and other development, though > still need to know how to use it. > > > Nicklas Karlsson > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
