2012/2/27 Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com>: > Mark Haynes wrote: >> Is linuxCNC currently funded? > Never has been, and a number of board and other members have said "never > will be!" > I'm not sure I agree with that, but there has been a strong sentiment to > not let it be > beholden to some company. I DO agree with that.
I am sure that it would also involve some legal dispute, because I do not know of any legal entity existing to hold the rights/ownership for the application. I do not remember where, but I have seen a remark that this application has been created with a help of US government funding, so no copyright (and thus also any ownership rights) apply to this piece of software, so I am sure that it is not an easy answer, if such a scenario to take over the whole project is actually possible at all. It seems that there are some companies that have modified this application and are offering it with their name, but I find such an approach very disputable in several aspects. Anyway, it does not seem that any of those spin-offs has gained any significant awareness or market-share, which tells me that it would most likely harm project more than would provide the benefit (of course, that depends on many aspects, mostly - the amounts of financing being invested). Although it implies some drawbacks, I do agree with the opinion that LinuxCNC should remain its current status. There are other examples, like Yishin's company, that are using LinuxCNC for their machines and that have developed some promising features, like jerk-limited (rate of change of acceleration) motion and, if I recall correctly, also implementation of NURBS (and probably there other things that I am not aware of) and they have allowed public access to their git repository to take this code further. Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
