-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/5/2013 1:59 PM, EBo wrote: > I've given this a bit of a sit and still have to disagree. Granted > the Lasersaur and Makerbot groups/company have not necessarily > played nice, but most of the stuff is open source. After letting > it settle and giving it a rethink, I guess what you ment by > "...minimum barrier for entry" is often the attitude that if it is > not open source, it is not worth my time mucking with. So do I > take it that you see LinuxCNC's non adoption in the 3D printing > world stemming from being open enough? I'm still confused. I know > for a fact that until recently it would not run on low end hardware > that is good enough to do the job, and is a bloody pain to get up > an running by all by the initiated, uber skilled, or those who just > use it off the distribution disk without modification. Do not get > me wrong, it is MUCH better, but still plug-and-pray. > > I'm still curious what you mean...
IMHO LinuxCNC being open-source is not enough to get people to switch from their currently working open-source Arduinos solution. There needs to be some other compelling reason to get them to want to switch to LinuxCNC. I was simply trying to convey that going to the maker community and saying "Use LinuxCNC!!! It's open-source!" isn't going to get a lot of people interested. The "pitch" needs to be something more like: Use LinuxCNC!!! I did and I was able to: * Program working reverse kinematics for my non-Cartesian 'bot in minutes! * Run my maximum speeds to 1000 mm/s with 10,000 mm/s/s acceleration! * Use nurbs to make prettier printed parts! ...or whatever. I think raw performance (step speed and timing quality) and hard floating point for reverse kinematics are big things that can help motivate people to migrate. I'm sure there are others. - -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHXHEoACgkQLywbqEHdNFyOrQCfZIiw8sFvqeV4jTDUsmE0g2Ha v/8AoMVcELALEeORAL+40viKzPb/QzEY =MEeU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
