[mrcwinn]

[Former employee of several years.] Generally speaking, I would say if Autodesk believes open source can advance a business goal, it will support that open source project. But I never got a sense of Autodesk sort of culturally or in a deeply embedded way caring about open source. High marks for how they treat employees and as a place to work, but not an OS leader.

[vxNsr]

Off topic but: currently needing to use autocad for a work project, any recommendations for learning autolisp or w/e the scripting language is? I was having trouble finding a good resource for this, seems like everyone just knows it and the only way to learn is to have good enough Google-fu to find the forum post that fulfills your criteria. And hope it’s not out of date.

[JamesCoyne]

[Current Autodesk CAD user] Thanks! Nice to hear their employees are well treated; atleast some good is coming from the yearly subscriptions.

[inferiorhuman]

Autodesk as an employer has fallen quite a bit from even a decade ago. Despite the culture of crabs in a bucket playing at empire building Bass' tenure was marked by generally employee friendly policies and a sincere passion behind some of their projects. The same definitely can't be said for the marketing dweebs that took over (and judging by Fusion they've ramped up their anti-customer initiatives too).

The shift towards subscription based bullshit was essentially the start of the effort to oust Bass.

[inferiorhuman]

Right. See also Ochopod and OpenStack. Open source is the means to a promotion, nothing more, nothing less.