Adobe did the same in my friend’s animation college
Shucks… Maybe if the college didn’t rob the students blind on tuition, and the publishers not rob the students blind on books, maybe they could afford to pay for software licenses. 🤷♂️
Thumb of rule is, If you don’t make enough to comfortably pay for some software; you simply don’t pay for said software.
Preach
Yup, this is why I didn’t pay for REAPER until the check for my first audiobook came through!
I’m still waiting for that check from the author, but you best believe $60 of it is going to the software that made that job possible!
Are there any opensource alternatives to these things? Could they save themselves this whole hassle, just get the alternative and cut their budget in half with a yearly donation?
Can’t speak for all of them, but for solidworks there is, but it is nowhere near the level of solidworks.
SolidWorks is probably the best CAD software in terms of capability and ease of use.
Either way, students learn SolidWorks because companies use solidworks
Well, Solidworks is the industry standard, but I think NX wins on capabilities, and Fusion has a much better workflow. Both are still corporate though.
I hope we get a good open source option, because Freecad is so far behind the rest that it’s basically unusable.
Forgot about NX, but you’re correct NX has more features and is way less buggy
It looks like you pirated the image too, gives me a headache just trying to read it
If it’s on a students personal device, they can suck my hullabaloo
Then you will be barred ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Your system, your rules but their network and also their rules.MAC randomization to the rescue!
My college used to tie your account to a maximum number of MAC addresses per year and you had to request more over the limit. I think it was like 4 or 5
MAC address cloning to the rescue!
You just have to make sure you don’t get caught…
It says debarred. So, they will undo the barring?!
Mine and mine related accessories
I’ll tell ya hwhat.
they should have put dorm numbers on there so you could meet some cool people. sharing is caring.
That is some next-level Minecraft you are playing over there
These mods have gotten ridiculous!
Pro tip: Always use a program like binisoft windows firewall control
Look at companies like this. The software KNOWS it has been cracked but instead of disabling itself it sends home your info so you can get sued for copyright infringement
Ps: I’m curious to know the price of the geovia suite. I’m guessing it’s a subscription and I’m guessing it’s more than 10k per year
Or a firewall that doesn’t rely on windows firewall, since programs will just whitelist themselves from it during installation
I didn’t encounter a single program that bypassed the block applied by windows firewall control - after setup they usually don’t have the admin rights anymore to control it
It’s pretty common for programs to add firewall rules for themselves during setup. If you rely on manually blocking them after the fact they could have called back home already
From my experience it seems like that with binisoft firewall control existing rules are ignored until re-added by the user
The only way a software can leak info is to open a url like example.com/install-success.php?track=UNIQUECODE in the default browser
Tinywall is great and free.
not sure about the majority of the software but I’d recommend FreeCad as an alt to Solidworks
- I’ve heard they’re about to hit their 1.0 release sometime in the near future
As a mechanical engineer who spent multiple thousands of hours using SolidWorks, trying to use FreeCAD felt like flying a Cessna 172 after getting used to a Citation jet.
I’m not well versed in planes, is the cessna better or worse?
A 172 is the plane you train to get a beginner license in. 90-120mph max.
Gotta love the use of quotes here:
it should be treated with “utmost importance.”
In other words, ignore this message from our lawyers.
This whole message reads like “we don’t actually care but we have to say that we do 😉🙂↕️”
Yep, the legal team advised a scare tactic akin to ISPs fishing for low-effort compliance. Reminds me of CAMP & the ATF busting farms in Mendicino until the '10s.
that such infringements do not occur on the campus
I often tell my students “whatever you do, don’t go to libgen dot rs to download our textbook illegally. You’re gonna want to avoid Anna’s archive as well. You really want to steer clear from these malicious websites.”
Some people use quotes for emphasis, though. So, not sure if this faculty’s on our side.
PhD students as well as all students of all levels need to use pirated software to fully develop their abilities.Trash this warning.
So thry’re saying they have plenty of licenses for the use case, but somehow people are still pirating?
Maybe their license management paradigm is just garbage. This could be the vendor, but also poor IT policy if the users can’t requisition what they need.
As usual, service problem.
So much licensing fuckery-- dealing with floating or reissuing licenses, users needing to move to different machines-- could be solved via affordable site licensing. But that might leave dollars on the table if users don’t overbuy.
This mail screams “please ignore this BS some lawyer forced me to write, he doesn’t even agree with it either!”
