I consider Krita and QGIS the only valid Foss apps I tried that can compete with the commercial giants to a certain extent. And all the development opportunities it spawned for addons - and therefore for the end user. We should consider ourselves to be fortunate enough to have Blender. The subscription prices are a fraction of some of the CAD softwares out there, which charge several thousands a year. This may actually leave low-wage countries behind.Īlthough this is certainly the case for DCCs, the situation seems to be less dire. Furthermore, it restricts access to the best tools available, meaning you got to pay big if you want to be innovative. And so these softwares capitalise on their position and thereby also impose limits on the development of these markets. There’s little to choose between, especially if you consider established pipelines, exchange formats and having to meet legislation in various sorts and forms, not to mention costs of education. There are some smaller players in some of these markets, but the majority of all design and creation software that is used to create physical products is in the hands of a very select number of companies. Software (Inventor, Fusion 360, Siemens NX, Solid works & Creo), product and car design software (Alias & ICEM) and architecture (Revit, Allplan, Vectorworks, Archicad) all live by the grace of giant software (holding) companies, such as Autodesk, Nemetschek, Dassault Systèmes - and we all know about the Adobe situation. Well, if you consider that the world’s engeneering
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