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Your complaints about modern Autodesk seem inappropriate in someone's memorial thread given that Walker appears to have nothing to do with the valid points your
by eesmith 3y ago
Your complaints about modern Autodesk seem inappropriate in someone's memorial thread given that Walker appears to have nothing to do with the valid points your raised, and likely was against them.
Walker resigned from Autodesk in 1994, and stepped down as chair years before then.
A quick read of his 2003 "The Digital Imprimatur" at https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ tells me he didn't like these changes either.
For one, around 2000 he thought "the emergence of viable international OpenSource alternatives to commercial software seemed to guarantee that control over computers and Internet was beyond the reach of any government or software vendor—any attempt to mandate restrictions in commercial software would only make OpenSource alternatives more compelling and accelerate their general adoption."