They Used to Be a Big Shot, Now Eagle Is No More

Re:They Used to Be a Big Shot, Now Eagle Is No More by JohnFen on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:41PM (#36261266)

Eagle was dead the moment that Autodesk bought it and turned it into subscription software. Subscription software is just too risky to depend on for anything important.

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Re:They Used to Be a Big Shot, Now Eagle Is No More by rm445 on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:36PM (#36262134)

Autodesk are sunsetting it in favour of their subscription, cloud-based, always-online Fusion 360. Most Altium users are probably on a subscription too for that matter.

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Re:They Used to Be a Big Shot, Now Eagle Is No More by JohnFen on Friday June 09, 2023 @05:17PM (#36264284)

They had already made it subscription-only shortly after they bought it. That's when people generally stopped using it.

They're sunsetting it now as a result of that loss of users (imo).

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Re:They Used to Be a Big Shot, Now Eagle Is No More by hakfoo on Sunday June 11, 2023 @05:26PM (#36285873)

It's also toxic on the low end.

As a hobbyist, I might want to spend a few weeks on designing PCBs, and then not again for months. I'll either have to over-buy an expensive annual contract or futz with activating and deactivating short-term subscriptions. Or use KiCAD or EasyEDA.

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