> I'm sick of companies building their products off the backs of the personal/hobbiest/small business market, and then when they get enough recognition and buzz, switch to essentially an "enterprise-only" pricing structure, completely screwing over the users who made them successful in the first place.
Then stop supporting them.
This isn't hard. There are alternatives. They need users. They need programmers. They need money. They need tutorials.
Support the open alternative even when it is inferior or keep getting screwed.
I think the average user of Autodesk does not frequent this forum, and probably has no idea what 'open alternative' really means. And no, there are not alternatives for most workloads supported by Autodesk applications. These people are professionals (tutorials are the last thing they need, they learn the software in school) that need to work, they need professional support and they need it now, there are no alternatives at all, aside from Solidworks that's limited to a few domains.
Then stop supporting them.
This isn't hard. There are alternatives. They need users. They need programmers. They need money. They need tutorials.
Support the open alternative even when it is inferior or keep getting screwed.