infoJM9C9 wrote:
About subscription, is there other solution rather than to pay every month?
Yes, becasue, I don't use Eagle every day, every week or every month, but only when I need, and why I have to pay for many months if I don't use the software?
Do You have a common license?
With the subscription model, you only need to pay for the months you are using EAGLE. When you aren't going to use it, log into your Autodesk account and suspend your subscription. When you need to use it again, go in and enable your subscription again.
@infoJM9C9 wrote:
The policy of CADSOFT was very good!
Unfortunately the licensing policy of CADSoft wasn't bringing in enough money and EAGLE was starved of development resource and didn't get any significant updates for a long time. Whether you agree with the subscription licensing or not, it's undeniable that Autodesk have put more development effort into EAGLE than it has had in pretty much its entire history and new features are coming out regularly.
@infoJM9C9 wrote:
The best solution is to have the compatibility to 32-bit.
I know it's possible, because my collegue that write software for PC, write only one version of 32 and 64 bit, without anyt problem. Check it with your engineers!
I am an engineer so I know that there is a lot more to it than just generating the additional 32-bit output from the build system. See my other answer.
@infoJM9C9 wrote:
I tryed to use Virtual Machine, but it's to slow, if I have to recompile projects! And it'ìs too slow if I have to work many hours.
I have virtual machines for Windows 10, macOS and Linux on my machine using VMWare Fusion and they are not slow at all. If your PC hardware is relatively modern and has the hardware virtualisation extensions in the CPU and these are enabled in the BIOS then performance should be more than acceptable for development work.
If you don't want to use virtualisation though, that's fine, you could of course keep your current PC for legacy software which will only run on your existing system and have another one for newer software.
@infoJM9C9 wrote:
With XP, I don't have any problem, even if Microsoft doesn't support it any more.
That OS is stable (in previous PC, I don't have any problem for 10+ years) and fast.
For my job (free lance) I use some softwares that runs on 32-bit OS only: Eagle and Code Warrior, where I have many projects. If I change it migrating to 64-bit, I have to rewrite all, because, for example, Code Warrior has a different architecture.
Then I have other software with license and I don't want to spent money to updated software without reason.
I don't need to run always to have all software at the latest version!
It is of course your choice to run XP and if you are comfortable with that.
I don't think I said you should upgrade everything to the latest version and I don't believe it would mean you'd have to re-write all your previous code. I suspect a lot of your current software will just run on a newer OS without any drama and won't need upgrading. Have you actually tried? It seems you want Autodesk to commit to spending significant resources on an ongoing basis to additionally support 32-bit platforms to save you the few days of effort required to bring your systems slightly more up to date.... Which everybody else of course then has to pay for through either increased subscription cost or having fewer new features or updates/fixes released less often.
Best Regards,
Rachael
