Your implication here seems to be that Autodesk can't possibly be doing something bad because they have "families to feed", get a grip man. The idea that a bill

Your implication here seems to be that Autodesk can't possibly be doing something bad because they have "families to feed", get a grip man. The idea that a billion dollar company is somehow financially equivalent to a mom-and-pop grocery store just a few lost purchases away from ruin and going through hard times is insane. The idea highly paid software engineers for a billion dollar company will suddenly be out on the streets, wearing barrels-on-suspenders by Friday all due to Fusion 360, not in a brand new job by the next week, is mostly ridiculous. People have got to get it through their heads that billion dollar companies do not operate by the same constraints as the rest of us, they aren't charging money because they need to, but because they can. "You" actually aren't a relevant variable at all and never will be, and neither is your purchase. That's how these things work, software or not. They're charging an entry fee where there wasn't one before. They want your money, and decided this was a good way to get it from a userbase they already had cultivated. They aren't going to pay their software engineers more money or any of that, they aren't going to make Fusion 360 more "sustainable", they could do that overnight with the cash they have, so all of that stuff about "software engineers have families" isn't actually relevant in the slightest, that's just a scapegoat corporate wants you to believe in. They're just trying to get more money. It's that simple and has absolutely nothing to do with the product. If you can't see or understand why people might be irritated by that (an entry fee where none existed prior and where it's mostly just making billion dollar corporations richer than they already are), I suggest you try actually looking at the state of the world around you for once in your life.