[onthecanposting]

Bentley has a market cap of around $15B. It's worth something to somebody. Their only serious market is DOT work and their position is attributable to administrative inertia and aggressive vendor lock-in.

The biggest problem isn't making better software, which already exists, but getting DOTs to stop making Bentley's proprietary file type a requirement for deliverables. The second problem is realizing that the CAD approach of imitating a paper process from last century isn't actually necessary.