you showed that you prefer to spend money to block existing features of your software instead of improving it with new paid features. While Autodesk maintained they were still committed to “democratizing design for everyone,” the community didn’t buy it, seeing it as a bid to squeeze money out of hobbyist users after riding their coattails to market domination. "All that work done by hobbyists, for free, helping Autodesk dominate the market in low-end CAD/CAM software.” “Think of the tens of millions of man-hours that have been invested into forum posts helping users, developing plugins, courses, YouTube videos, and Makerspace workshops that could have instead gone into making open source tools like KiCAD, OpenSCAD, pycam, etc better. This take undermines the exchange of benefits that takes place between vendors of free software and the communities that spring up around it: Some users were not surprised, saying it was inevitable that the company would seek to monetize more of their product, even suggesting that the Fusion 360 license had been overly generous to begin with. dxf? No extensions? I can't even buy stress simulation credits? … yikes.”
“The file export limitations in particular are crippling. Many users felt betrayed and frustrated at the new limitations: The changes to the license for Fusion 360 for Personal Use were a perfect illustration of the risk of making use of “free as in beer” software. These changes felt like a slap in the face, with some members deleting their Fusion 360 accounts in protest (whether or not they were affected by the new limitations). Over two years ago Autodesk imposed a number of new limitations on its free non-commercial-use license for Fusion 360, primarily impacting hobbyist and casual users: project storage was limited, exports to a number of (critical) file types were no longer offered, and support for CAM was drastically cut back, among other restrictions. If that’s how you’re going to treat the hobbyists, then goodbye forever to Fusion 360.”
Many of those people left Fusion and never looked back. Now, after more than two years, we can see the effect. Hobbyists, YouTubers, and makers felt betrayed. When Autodesk changed their license for Fusion 360 in September of 2020 there was a collective scream from the user community.
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