This is a selfie-FAQ, in which I interview myself over the implications for industry given Autodesk's law suit against ZWSOFT (of China, and its closely-linked American distributor, Global Force Direct). Q: Why did Autodesk sue ZWSOFT? A: ZWSOFT originally based its ZWCAD software on the IntelliCAD code licensed from ITC. But then like some other CAD vendors, ZWSOFT likely decided to become independent of ITC and so a couple years ago rewrote the code. Every corporation has a competitive analysis group, and the one at Autodesk no doubt examined ZWCAD+ and determined it acted suspiciously like AutoCAD -- right down... Read more →
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