Backlash! Is DWG 2007 in Danger of Isolation?

Reaction to ADSK vs ODA is coming in from developers...

A developer in India writes me:

"I was planning to license the DWGdirect libraries, since my customers have been asking for DWG I/O functionality. As of now I can export DXF only (something I wrote myself). But now I am going to wait and watch."

A competitor to Autodesk in the USA writes me that they're not using the DWG 2007 API from ODA, because their software is still at the 2006 level.

This could be a trend in seeing DWG 2007 as a hot potato. Do competitors want to (1) use legally-tainted software from ODA or (2) pay a second time to get the API from arch-competitor Autodesk who already makes the most money in the industry?

With the majority of the one-three billion DWG files being from 2006 or earlier, a third option is to avoid DWG 2007 for now -- giving it a scarlet A.

Watching and waiting... in an industry where delay is regression.