alt text: Someone looking disinterested at their fingernails. "Me pretending that i dont care about convenience so i can use free software"
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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I wonder if it's because of patent-trolling crap, like Adobe's case.
(Adobe runs patents on individual good-design features, like "having x option available on the right-click menu", forcing competitors to have that same option buried in some other dropdown menu somewhere, or have the same option split in multiple steps, in order to avoid being sued...)
AutoCAD's company has done other sleazy copyright-related shit, so I wonder if something similar is going on, just like Photoshop alternatives being shit.
It's probably a mix of that and how CAD/Engineering software is a complicated niche market. It's not as ubiquitous as something like an office suite or even a phot editor like GIMP. I don't have anything to back that up other than a hunch.
Oh wow that's actually evil. Imagine having such shit software that the only thing keeping competition away is having a literal monopoly on your features.
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Yeah.
How’s that even patentable? If it actually is, then whichever game dev decided to use WASD to walk missed out on something.
Because huge legal teams make sure to find the right loopholes.
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