On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Mike Payson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unfortunately, this survey tells us nothing at all about the real > popularity of anything. All we can tell for sure is that more Mach users > have heard about the poll. The matter is made worse by the tiny sample > set-- he is reaching conclusions based a sample of only 100 > non-randomly-selected users. Unfortunately the two factors together combine > to make the matter effectively meaningless. > -------------------------------------------------------------- To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure how much this affects most of us. Anyone that wants to use anything other than step/dir usually ends up using linuxcnc eventually anyway. And Linuxcnc garners a reasonable portion of the step/dir market too. I'm convinced Mach will eventually succumb to Microsoft anklebiting. Of course, using PCs for anything useful may eventually succumb to the iPad syndrome, but who knows? There are lots of people that are using Linuxcnc that we never hear from. The person that is responsible for the Shapeoko project, Edward Ford, is almost never heard from, but he's using Linuxcnc. I don't think most home cnc machines get any public exposure, and the commercial machines that use linuxcnc are even less likely to get public exposure. Popularity isn't that important to most users. Eric Keller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
