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Autodesk founder outraged by Amazon snatch of cloudy purchases

By Steve Johnson 24 November 2017, 2:43 pm 24 November 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"3

Autodesk co-founder John Walker (it’s not his fault, he relinquished control of the company many years ago) recently posted this on Twitter: In a move reminiscent of the infamous removal of Orwell’s 1984 from Kindle devices (which Amazon promised a court it would never repeat), John’s Audible.com (owned by Amazon) audio books, purchased in 2009-2010, simply went away. John’s reaction was to post a video of harmless inanimate objects being blown away by a powerful firearm, so I think it’s safe to say he was not overly pleased about this turn of events. Can’t say I blame him. This is …

Autodesk, Fail, Fun, Rental, Subscription, Tip, Web Stuff

Hot tip for Autodesk

By Steve Johnson 21 April 2017, 5:12 pm 21 April 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"10

Hey Autodesk high-ups, I’m sorry you’ve been having so much trouble persuading your customers to throw away their perpetual licenses and throw themselves on your perpetual mercy. It’s clearly difficult to persuade technical types to do dumb things like rent your software at enormous and ever-increasing prices. I feel for you. But there’s an answer. Find dumber customers. Lots of them. And fast, before the stock market notices that you’re no Adobe and we’re not buying it. Sorry, I mean not renting it. Look no further! Simply buy this company, discard the product when you’re bored with it (you’re very …

Autodesk, Cloud, Comments, Polls, Web Stuff

How good is Autodesk at the Internet?

By Steve Johnson 23 December 2011, 12:31 pm 23 December 2011 itemprop="discussionURL"3

It goes without saying that any company that intends to win at CAD on the Cloud had better be pretty darn good at doing Internet stuff. So, does Autodesk qualify? There’s a poll on the right and your comments are welcome.

AutoCAD, Autodesk, Web Stuff

AutoCAD Internet Survey

By Steve Johnson 27 April 2010, 9:47 am 27 April 2010 itemprop="discussionURL"0

I spotted this on the AutoCAD Research Twitter feed: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AutoCAD_Internet Autodesk wants to know your views on web content and how it relates to AutoCAD and your work. It’s a fairly big survey, but I encourage you to take part. You can also sign up to participate in user research sessions here. This is a pretty direct way of letting Autodesk know what you think.