I have my own seat of SolidWorks for my own personal use. Sure, you can buy a seat and never buy maintenance. You think you 'own' Solidworks or Inventor or PTC? I was a Solidworks reseller for years.
I will resist efforts to steal those things from me. If I want to be charitable, I demand to do it on my own terms.
#Download cubify design software
Sorry, but I will not use any software that forces me to give away the value of my time and the value of something I have created. You are not an individual, you are simply an asset to the screaming mob who demands that they are automatically entitled to your work. If you aren't allowed to own anything, you become a slave to the collective. Property rights - the concept of ownership lies at the very core of individual freedom. "We will get past this fear and one or two generations from now, no one will "own" anything design related. Eventually, nobody is left to produce anything and everybody has their hand out. Once the makers realize they are being screwed by the takers, they eventually come to resent the theft and they withdraw their efforts. They've tried it over and over and it always fails miserably. Utopian socialists have dreamed about a society based upon these principles for centuries. If you choose to create something, you become a slave because you are forced to give it away for nothing. No ownership, no way to receive compensation in proportion to the time and effort you put into your work and the value that others judge it to have. If everyone has unconditional access to everyone else's intellectual property, there will essentially be no intellectual property rights at all. The concern for letting your IP be in the cloud will vanish." "I think in the future, most (all?) software will be cloud based.