2014-07-24 9:41 GMT+03:00 Steve Blackmore <st...@pilotltd.net>: >>A non linux user not wishing to get his 'hands' dirty in the software >>probably will not want to get his hands dirty wiring a machine or fixing a >>ball screw. Perhaps, for the LinuxCNC group, having a not insignificant >>hurdle to jump will eliminate a lot of 'problems'. > > I think you're miles off there Stuart - many thousands of them at it and > all struggling to find some reliable and user friendly cnc control > software.
Yeah, right, many thousands of sad and oppressed people with no perspective in their lives. One of basic rules in economy says - if there is demand, there will be supply. If you are right, then how comes that there are no companies to fit that segment of market? Maybe because it is not feasible to create one universal product that would fit needs of everybody and yet be very easy to configure and very userfriendly? Maybe authors of every cnc control application out there think that they already have created "the one and only application you will ever need"? Maybe there are too many segments of cnc control application market and there _always_ will be somebody, whose needs are not met completely? One can write a software that even idiot can use, but only idiots will want to use it then... Would it be much to ask to stop all that complaining [and not providing _any_ improvements by yourself] about how much unusable is this or that application and how user-unfriendly they are and how hard it is to configure them, not to mention those really high obstacles of getting development version to test new features? Oh, I almost apologize, total number of other applications that will offer you to test latest development version is equal to zero and yet there is still complaining about how difficult it is to make less than 20 mouse clicks to install latest buildbot version? I am not saying that LinuxCNC is perfect, there are things to be fixed, yet it seems to me that you feel like this community owes you fixing certain things in a certain deadline. As if you had paid for it... Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
