topic Re: Every subscription software developer is becoming very nervous this week! in Licensing

Every subscription software developer is becoming very nervous this week!

rm — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:38:15 GMT

A group of, apparently really pissed off and motivated Adobe customers just released an AI generated Open Source suite of the seven most used apps in the Adobe Suite. They even released a clone of AutoCAD. Could Graphisoft, Revit and the like be the next free clones?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUGjiG81tiU

We have just seen the first salvo launched as the market has made its tired of having its work being held hostage to continually buy subscriptions to access work created with software. I saw this coming 3 years ago as AI was just starting to become a real buzzword.

Re: Every subscription software developer is becoming very nervous this week!

rm — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:46:15 GMT

UPDATE: The same group of people has also created most of the Microsoft Office suite clones as well. This is going to get quite spicy, quickly.

Re: Every subscription software developer is becoming very nervous this week!

Wlad222 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:09:08 GMT

Do you think we will see Archicad alternative?

Re: Every subscription software developer is becoming very nervous this week!

MSDC — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:33:33 GMT

Interesting times but I'm not sure it's worth the risk for most companies of a hacked software that won't have ongoing support. Students get a lot of software for free so it's really only sole traders that would go for it imo and even then, is it worth the potential threat of legal action?

If you think of how unusable grasshopper is to anyone that didn't create the script, I can see these hacked programs feeling the same.

Re: Every subscription software developer is becoming very nervous this week!

Martin Jan Rosa — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:11:01 GMT

Don’t jump on the hype. Being a clone, vibe-coded, open-source and free isn’t the only thing that matters when choosing an app. That said, it doesn’t mean any software developer shouldn’t be nervous these days. In fact, I’ve already replaced a few subscriptions with tools I built myself – but a complex product like Archicad is still a long way from that. At least for the next few months... 😆

Re: Every subscription software developer is becoming very nervous this week!

Wlad222 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:38:23 GMT

Dude have you seen https://ingetrazo.com/en/ Sketchup clone? Its not 100% there yet, but holy shi it is pretty good. I give Archicad tops 1 year.