As a french, please don’t give a penny worth of licence to Dassault Systèmes. They were founded by some of the worst ennemy of the people my country made.
Dassault is a group which covers multiple company, the most notorious is “Dassault Aviation” which sells warplanes like the “Rafale”. But it is also implicated in a lot of other activities like infrastructures and road work, press, informatics, etc.
The company is very close to the government because it need public contracts to work, it can’t sell planes without it being a contract between France and the country who buys it.
Which is very problematic because Dassault has interest in influencing exterior politics of my country to sell it’s planes. The head of Dassault company in the last few decades is Serge Dassault, Billionaire and French Politician.
S. Dassault has used his influence and power as a media owner and elected regional politician to promote his business.
On the politic side he was a right wing politician, leaning to the far right. He made some homophobic statements during the discussion about same-sex marriage stating that homosexuality in ancient Greece was “one of the reasons for its decadence” and that “there is no renewing of the population. We’re going to have a country of Homos. There will be nobody left in 10 years. That’s stupid.”
He was also publicly anti-union (which is honestly pretty rare to be claimed publicly in France) and against the right to go on strikes. He said that he admire the Chinese work organization.
He was brought to the court several times :
For concealing during 15 years millions in other countries.
For rigging elections by buying votes in 2008. His election was canceled and he was sentenced to 1 year of ineligibility. He went around it by making one of his partner, Jean-Pierre Bechter, elected. In 2013, Mediapart (a french independent newspaper of investigation) released an audio of S. Dassault claiming he spent 1,7 million of euros to elect Bechter.
I am not an expert on this and a lot of what I am saying here is documented on his French wikipedia page about his politics view and his legal problems
Much more can be said but it is a beginning to understand what I meant.
Serge Dasault is now dead but his children are all at different responsibility positions in the Dassault group.
Here is a map of who owns the medias in France (last updated in December 2023) where you can see what Dassault owns, it seems to be less than when S. Dassault was still alive, for exemple until 2006 they also owned “L’express”
SW was great to use back in uni but holy hell is it full of phone home stuff and really annoying these days, I scrapped my license, they straight up wouldn’t let me cancel within 30 days of renewal so I yanked my cc and “cancelled” that way.
Use FreeCAD, mentioned in a few posts, it’s got some clunk but it’s 100% useable, has more than enough features for prosumer/hobbyist use, personally I’d make an argument it’s fine for enterprise use too, Ondsel seems to think so considering that’s the market they’re targeting with their releases. I’d recommend the Ondsel release or Realthunder’s (what I currently use) which has features/fixes that will be merged back, and 100% look at mainline freecad when the 1.0 release drops
As a french, please don’t give a penny worth of licence to Dassault Systèmes. They were founded by some of the worst ennemy of the people my country made.
Dassault absolutely deserves to rot in hell right next to Adobe
I’d like to know more
Sorry to answer a little late,
Dassault is a group which covers multiple company, the most notorious is “Dassault Aviation” which sells warplanes like the “Rafale”. But it is also implicated in a lot of other activities like infrastructures and road work, press, informatics, etc. The company is very close to the government because it need public contracts to work, it can’t sell planes without it being a contract between France and the country who buys it. Which is very problematic because Dassault has interest in influencing exterior politics of my country to sell it’s planes. The head of Dassault company in the last few decades is Serge Dassault, Billionaire and French Politician. S. Dassault has used his influence and power as a media owner and elected regional politician to promote his business.
On the politic side he was a right wing politician, leaning to the far right. He made some homophobic statements during the discussion about same-sex marriage stating that homosexuality in ancient Greece was “one of the reasons for its decadence” and that “there is no renewing of the population. We’re going to have a country of Homos. There will be nobody left in 10 years. That’s stupid.” He was also publicly anti-union (which is honestly pretty rare to be claimed publicly in France) and against the right to go on strikes. He said that he admire the Chinese work organization.
He was brought to the court several times :
I am not an expert on this and a lot of what I am saying here is documented on his French wikipedia page about his politics view and his legal problems Much more can be said but it is a beginning to understand what I meant.
Serge Dasault is now dead but his children are all at different responsibility positions in the Dassault group. Here is a map of who owns the medias in France (last updated in December 2023) where you can see what Dassault owns, it seems to be less than when S. Dassault was still alive, for exemple until 2006 they also owned “L’express”
Thanks for the detailed answer!
I am not French, but tried to look it up. I couldn’t find anything except him being a billionaire which should be enough.
This guy is smart unlike American clowns… Low profile.
Fair enough
Storytime, please?
I pirated solid works because my university’s engineering program required what we PAY for it to complete our courses that absolutely required it.
SW was great to use back in uni but holy hell is it full of phone home stuff and really annoying these days, I scrapped my license, they straight up wouldn’t let me cancel within 30 days of renewal so I yanked my cc and “cancelled” that way.
Use FreeCAD, mentioned in a few posts, it’s got some clunk but it’s 100% useable, has more than enough features for prosumer/hobbyist use, personally I’d make an argument it’s fine for enterprise use too, Ondsel seems to think so considering that’s the market they’re targeting with their releases. I’d recommend the Ondsel release or Realthunder’s (what I currently use) which has features/fixes that will be merged back, and 100% look at mainline freecad when the 1.0 release drops
yea I would like to second that. Not sure how many FOSS alternatives exist for mine design & planning though
I know one for mine crafting…
the only phrase in GEOVIA’s manual : never dig straight down