Peter,

I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion but you can get the story
right from the CEO's mouth:=20

http://www.alibre.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3D1315=20

I can also say that Alibre is a very reputable company. I've been a
licensed user of Alibre Design Professional for about a year now and
I've been very satisfied and impressed with how they do business as
well as the quality and value of their product.=20

I hope they're successful with this strategy -- god knows someone
needed to do something to break the "workstation" mentality of CAD
vendors with regards to price and licensing policies.=20

I bought Alibre Design because I needed to do 3D modeling in my one=20
person consulting company and couldn't justify a huge cash outlay with=20
a large maintenance charge per year just to keep the software active.=20
Even Solidworks have priced themselves out of my reach, nevermind=20
ProEngineer. Alibre fit the bill, works great and I can afford it. It=20
does about 99% of what Solidworks can do, some things Solidworks can't=20
do and (according to users who are well versed in both) is easier to
learn and use.=20

I don't expect to ever see adware or crippled software from Alibre, it
simply isn't their style and I don't think they'd risk their
reputation as a top notch software vendor. I think in this case, they
are simply "thinking outside the box". I say good luck to them and hope
they succeed.

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:47:48 -0400, Peter van Hoof wrote:
>=A0Ok , so I was deceived this is a crippled adware infected piece of cr=
ap
>=A0software.
>=A0They are not exactly doing their company a favor with this
>=A0
>=A0Peter
>=A0


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