CAD Interoperability Battles

I interrupt this series on CAD Client to point you to some interesting dialog going on regarding Autodesk and the Open Design Alliance (the folks that provide CAD interoperability technology to companies like ESRI and Bentley):

Autodesk to Discontinue 2005 Infrastructure Products to Avoid DGN Entanglement with Open Design Alliance

And,

Statement from Open Design Alliance regarding Autodesk’s use of ODA’s DGNDirect

And,

Autodesk Tries to Tradmark DWG