Autodesk Suing to Keep Format Closed

An anonymous reader writes "AutoCAD is by far the industry standard CAD tool for engineering drawings. When I was an engineering student it was on every computer in the college of engineering. Autodesk, the makers of the AutoCAD software, are attempting to quash an effort to reverse-engineer the proprietary binary format used by AutoCAD. Looking at the court order, their whole argument revolves around something called TrustedDWG that basically looks like a digital signature that verifies the file was created by an Autodesk product."

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AutoCAD seem to be dicks

[LocalH]

Looking at the linked site, I see a link entitled "Open Design Alliance statement on the use of its technology by Autodesk". Following it gives me a page that basically says that Autodesk used their DGNdirect code without authorization, even after being notified.