You're right. I used to work for these EvilCorp companies where everything is 'consumers' and 'product'. However, behind a lot of that insidious stupidity there is a psychological process: People do react very strongly to visuals.chrisb wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:24 am ... the arguments you state look like another act of self-sabotage. They are the usual marketing stuff, not caring if it is wrong or right. Unprecise statements, which are only eye catching... Ever heard of freedom? And why should FreeCAD care about consumers. FreeCAD doesn't have to sell.
FreeCAD may be 'free' but it is in competition with 'paid'. I'd like it to be software that a young person can pick up and teach themselves with.
At the moment, most beginners will open FreeCAD, feel like it's cheap (it's not); close the app down; and then stumble into the hellscape of Fusion360 or some other bait-and-switch trap that further profits EvilCorp and destroys our planet's engineering landscape.
Change is hard; and often resisted. I strongly feel something must be done about the logo and splash immediately. It creates such a horrible impression. It's like dressing Einstein in a clown suit; why do something so demeaning to something so great?