Nice comments Doug. That's the spirit! Rainer On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Doug Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > I am am almost 75 years old and some kind of excited about this new > industrial revolution that is creeping up on us all. > My grandson is programing cnc for several different companies > running cnc at home building products and to a lesser degree > subcontracting. These little home shops don't have to pay employee > healthcare nor pay corporate taxes. They can likely pay the lower > capital gains taxes on what their robots, cnc mills and Fab machines build. > When I think that I can download and install Ubuntu and EMC 2 buy a > driver box from a shop that may have built it at home and even go so far > as to build my own mill from parts that may have been built in a home > workshop it's exciting. Some guy in his back yard may well cast the > parts in his back yard for me out of scrap metals. "WOW" This not a > little thing it can be huge. > It may well change government or it's tax methods. It may turn out > that we will do away with income tax and have to tax these products when > sold in the form of sales tax. > These same people will not have to drive 20 miles to work everyday > and may not wear out a car every ten years making that trip. Mass > transit may be an idea that has come and is now going. > I have been dreaming about this stuff since back in the late > 1960's when I first began to use NC and then CNC. > I think the Chinese have done us a huge favor by taking > manufacturing away to free up the young, smart as can be young > entrepreneur that are beginning this new economy. > A lot of this, I think is inspired by the writing of free software > like linux. Then from there moving on to free programs like Cinelerra > and emc 2. I really believe free Linux has reached a kind of critical > mass that is now allowing it to move into programs that can do physical > work and manufacturing. > I am presently repairing microscopes but will soon be making medical > parts for hospital beds, Xray machines etc. These will go freely all > over the world where they are sorely needed and a big part of this will > be, because of EMC 2. I could not make enough of these without cnc. > I will need to make some parts to sell as well. I can't run a > backyard shop without some income from someplace so I will make and sell > some parts for this purpose. I have also decided that some of this > money needs to go to the writing of software like Emc 2 so I plan to > donate some of what I make to help develop. It won't be much money but > it will help. I have never done this before because I only used free > software in playing with my computer but now this same software is > doing my work for me so it only seems fair to return something. > Wouldn't it be something if free software changed the economy of the > whole world?? I find this really exciting stuff and it seems it may go > as far as you can imagine. > > Doug > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. > Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >
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