On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Are the software suites proprietary? > > Yes. Ugh. Then we should fight this. > What would you think about propriety suites that ran on free platforms? Worse! > Solidworks, for example, is not free software, is Windows-only, and . > It *is* one of the better tools in its design space, though. Matlab > isn't Free either, and though there is a GNU/Linux version, not all > toolboxes run on it. For our Microwaves class, we had to use one such > toolbox... We should fight for only free software to be used -- free software than is Windows only is at least a step in the right direction, though we should push for free software to at least work on GNU/Linux as well. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
