Re:Autodesk announces 925 layoffs
by Silhouette on Friday February 05, 2016 @01:14PM
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With the rental model, you are in much the same boat as a person who rents a house, when the landlord wants to charge more you pay it or get evicted.
Except that in the case of software, if either your data is locked up in some proprietary way or there is no competing software with a similar feature set anyway, you get evicted and there's no other landlord offering you an alternative place to live.
Re:Autodesk announces 925 layoffs
by justinclift on Thursday February 04, 2016 @10:41AM
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Exactly. Does anyone believe Autodesk won't pull an Oracle once they've transitioned their products to be Cloud only.
I don't. :( Hopefully I'm wrong. :)
When your company requires the software to do its daily business, any misstep by the software company is a serious liability.
When you 'buy' a copy of the software it is yours to run, and if the parent goes out of business you may not be able to reactivate it, at least it still runs.
With the rental model, you are in much the same boat as a person who rents a house, when the landlord wants to charge more you pay it or get evicted.