As I have stated before, I believe Autodesk to be in the right (morally, not legally) in its battle to prevent Vernor’s resale of old, upgraded copies of Release 14. In the latest installment, Autodesk has won its appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. There will be be further legal moves yet, [...]
 15 September 2010, 5:16 pm |  13 comments | Tags: EULA, Licensing, Vernor | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Fail, Legal, Other Blogs, Other Sites, Rant Evan Yares has raised an interesting point about the insolvency clause in Autodesk’s End User License Agreement. Please read the whole thing, but the gist is that there’s a clause where if you get into financial difficulties, Autodesk will do its bit to help you out in times of trouble by taking away your software [...] 22 April 2009, 6:23 pm | 5 comments | Tags: Autodesk, EULA, Evan Yares, Legal, Licensing, R. Paul Waddington | Category: Autodesk, Legal, Other Blogs, Polls Evan Yares has provided more information on the incident I mentioned in my last post. Here it is: It was years ago. My guess was that the person who did it was just trying to spider the website pages, for marketing research, and didn’t realize he got all the libraries too. In any [...] 16 April 2009, 11:48 am |  Leave a comment | Tags: Autodesk, EULA, Evan Yares, Licensing, ODA, Public Relations | Category: Autodesk, Interoperability, Legal, Thoughts I’ve always found it entertaining when the lawyers of CAD companies do their best to make their clients look like total jerks. The opening shots as presented by Evan Yares in his proposed ODA class-action lawsuit indicate that there is another rich source of recreational reading on its way. I’m sure it’s no fun [...] 15 April 2009, 4:44 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: Autodesk, EULA, Evan Yares, Licensing, ODA, Polls, Public Relations | Category: Autodesk, Interoperability, Legal, Polls |
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How will you react to Autodesk’s new upgrade pricing?
As I reported early last year, Autodesk is going to discourage you from paying for upgrades as and when you see fit. It is doing this by charging you 50% of the cost of a full license to upgrade from the previous release. The same 50% cost will apply if you crossgrade [edit: crossgrade [...]