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 Thanks to Brian and Rick for pointing out the availability of a hotfix for Raster Design 2010′s standalone/network license incompatibility. As a bonus, it also fixes some Raster Design / Civil 3D stability issues. The hotfix is available here, and as always with patches, fixes, service packs and updates, read the readme first. Note [...] 23 June 2009, 12:09 pm |  Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Civil 3D, Licensing, Raster Design | Category: AutoCAD 2010, Bug, Customer Service, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Raster Design Autodesk has been in touch to confirm that the failure to allow a mixed network/standalone environment is confined to Raster Design. I haven’t yet tested this myself, but I’ve been told unequivocally that you can mix standalone and network license models for the major products. Here is the official Autodesk response to the issue: [...] 1 May 2009, 9:09 am | 4 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2010, Interoperability, Licensing, Raster Design | Category: AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Raster Design I have been in touch with various people at Autodesk about Raster Design 2010′s failure to work in a mixed standalone/network environment. These people have all been suitably apologetic, they assure me it wasn’t a deliberate move on Autodesk’s part, and that moves are afoot to provide a solution fairly soon. For example: Our [...] 27 April 2009, 12:00 am | 3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Licensing, Raster Design | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Customer Service, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Raster Design 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 I was horrified to learn (in this Autodesk Discussion Group thread) that Autodesk has changed the rules as far as the way Raster Design licenses are handled. It’s quite possible that Autodesk has also done this with other products that I’m not yet aware of. If so, please comment and let me know. If [...] 20 April 2009, 4:40 pm | 10 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Idiocy, Licensing, Rant, Raster Design | Category: AutoCAD 2010, Customer Service, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Rant, Raster Design 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 Software companies use a variety of differerent methods in their attempts to prevent piracy and restrict use of their software to legitimate paying customers. Yes, these attempts are generally futile. Yes, they can end up inconveniencing legitimate users and providing pirate users with advantages over paying customers. Yes, they add to development costs and [...] 17 October 2008, 1:23 pm | 2 comments | Tags: Customer Service, Licensing, Piracy, Polls, Software | Category: Customer Service, Polls |
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