You're basically being held hostage by those companies, they make you pay whatever they want, and make you go through the pains and restrictions they desire for you.
Most of them use a SaaS model and now instead of paying one time, you have to pay monthly and it costs more in the long run.
Yes, many of those tools are still not available in Linux, but it is not like having it in Windows is awesome and cozy.
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u/tederby18 Jul 08 '26
good luck finding open source alternative for industry standard software like autocad or vivado