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It isn't a problem if it doesn't stuff you for working when you want to but it has stuffed many people and businesses when they needed to work.
As have updates which change how the software behaves and as it's Cloud Based you cannot opt to only use the last stable version.
Keep using it sheeple, it's all part of Autodesk's plan to eliminate the viable Open Source opponents for as long as possible before channelling you into a paid programme which you will be unable to refuse if you want to work
LOL: Your point is valid and I highly doubt the CIA and MI6 combined could concoct a better extortion plan than this (and I'm almost not joking). I thought long and hard about making a change. I'm still investigating and am only 2 days into it. Here's some preliminary thinking and I totally welcome other's thoughts on this.
I think the folks at AutoDesk are geniuses for coming-up with this. If they become evil let's hope truth, justice, and other open-source platforms come to save the day; the same way Google Chrome, Firefox etc keeps Microsoft Explorer/Edge at bay and the same way Linux pulled the plug on AT&T Sys V. If they start charging more fees... Honestly, I don't mind paying someone a fair price for their efforts.
To some extent, everyone who uses CAD/CAM of any sort is held hostage. For my own personal use and my part-time business, I've already sunk a small fortune into Alibre and BobCad -and there's no way out really.
If the "Internet Crashes" (loosely speaking) we'll be screwed -inclusive of Fusion360 and other things -like our financial system -and worse yet, the Hobby-Machinist website.
If someone hacks the Fusion360 data stores... that would be bad but, I can absolutely guarantee that every piece of my personal information was already stolen from me when government servers were hacked in 2013. In many places in other parts of the world, there is no expectation of privacy in the first place.
As far as "big brother" looking at my Fusion360 models... I can all but absolutely, 100%, no-doubt-about-it, predict that a whole bunch of "men in black" are A) embedded in their operations and B) have offsite intel groups scouring the information looking for keywords -and more importantly, looking to see what kinds of information is being exchanged between targeted areas of interest. The CEO, CFO and BoD of ADSK will never admit they know this is happening.
If my local network goes down... From my investigation (reading, not personal experience) the desktop application will survive and be able to work on the files locally. The web-based, "collaboration" aspects will certainly suffer. In this regard, I should be good. There's only three people working on my projects: Me, Myself and I. I did however try the web aspect with my shop computer and that worked-out nicely.
We'll see... I'm leery too because I can see the obvious risks as well as the not-so-obvious ones too.
Ray