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Did Eagle get worse after Autodesk bought it?

mysterydip 3y ago
In January 2020, EAGLE 9.5.2 was discontinued as a standalone product and is only licensed to users as a bundled component with an Autodesk Fusion 360 subscription. In 2023, Autodesk announced that they will no longer sell nor support EAGLE after 7 June 2026. from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAGLE_(program) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAGLE_(program)
Liftyee 3y ago
Autodesk is phasing it out and merging it into their Fusion 360 subscription.
kilolima 3y ago
Eagle and Autodesk deserve each other: "In spring 1991 the dongle protection scheme of EAGLE 2.0 had been cracked causing a decline of 30% in sales, while sales for a reduced demo version with a printed manual saw a significant increase.[4] As a consequence in 1992 CadSoft sent thousands of floppy disks containing a new demo of EAGLE 2.6 to potential users, in particular those who had ordered the former demo but had not subsequently bought the full product.[4] The new demo, however, also contained spy code scanning the user's hard disk for illegal copies of EAGLE.[4] If the program found traces of such, it would show a message indicating that the user was entitled to order a free printed manual using the displayed special order code, which, however, was actually a number encoding the evidence found on the user's machine.[4] Users sending in the filled out form would receive a reply from CadSoft's attorneys.[4][33] The act of spying, however, was illegal as well by German law.[4][33]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAGLE_(program)#Controversies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAGLE_(program)#Controversie...
- mindslight 3y ago
  Sheesh. I just remember later versions having a pretty astute anti-piracy scheme where newer versions had some kind of blacklist of pirated keys, with the key stored in the binary save file - files produced by a pirated copy couldn't be loaded by a newer version. There were pretty great tools for textual import/export though, so it was relatively easy to work around.

In January 2020, EAGLE 9.5.2 was discontinued as a standalone product and is only licensed to users as a bundled component with an Autodesk Fusion 360 subscription. In 2023, Autodesk announced that they will no longer sell nor support EAGLE after 7 June 2026. from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAGLE_(program) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAGLE_(program)

Liftyee 3y ago

Autodesk is phasing it out and merging it into their Fusion 360 subscription.

kilolima 3y ago

Eagle and Autodesk deserve each other: "In spring 1991 the dongle protection scheme of EAGLE 2.0 had been cracked causing a decline of 30% in sales, while sales for a reduced demo version with a printed manual saw a significant increase.[4] As a consequence in 1992 CadSoft sent thousands of floppy disks containing a new demo of EAGLE 2.6 to potential users, in particular those who had ordered the former demo but had not subsequently bought the full product.[4] The new demo, however, also contained spy code scanning the user's hard disk for illegal copies of EAGLE.[4] If the program found traces of such, it would show a message indicating that the user was entitled to order a free printed manual using the displayed special order code, which, however, was actually a number encoding the evidence found on the user's machine.[4] Users sending in the filled out form would receive a reply from CadSoft's attorneys.[4][33] The act of spying, however, was illegal as well by German law.[4][33]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAGLE_(program)#Controversies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAGLE_(program)#Controversie...

mindslight 3y ago
Sheesh. I just remember later versions having a pretty astute anti-piracy scheme where newer versions had some kind of blacklist of pirated keys, with the key stored in the binary save file - files produced by a pirated copy couldn't be loaded by a newer version. There were pretty great tools for textual import/export though, so it was relatively easy to work around.