Gentlemen, I guess I was not clearly expressing myself. This may be a little more direct. I don't see ANY competition between Mach and LinuxCNC. When you compare the quality of apple to the quality of oranges any argument fails. The competition between the "new" youngsters and "old" cnc guys does not exist either. When the youngsters need the capability of LinuxCNC then they will learn it and adopt it. I see service guys (here in Wichita) that will not 'consider' putting a garden variety PC on a machine tool. That would be heresy. It is difficult to get some of them to come in and service the commercial controls they specialize in.
They will not even look at the LinuxCNC running in my shop. They will not discuss it with me. History of more than a decade of PC based solutions here (first with MDSI's OpenCNC installed in 1997 still running and then multiple LinuxCNC installs) has no sway in the argument. One consolation is "they will not consider Mach either". All PC based solutions are lumped together in one trash bin. I do not mean to ignore progress in all other solutions. We need to improve the LinuxCNC solution. Not so it is more competitive with another solution but so the LinuxCNC users are more competitive with their competition. We can worry about what another solution has but if we don't have solutions that enhance LinuxCNC we will lose because it cannot be used profitably in industry. If the LinuxCNC community improves the solution then progress is made. The way I see it we need to show the installed base of users and techs LinuxCNC is a viable solution. Then we will have more competent people installing and using LinuxCNC. That will then allow the 'new' blood to learn how to make a real machine run. now this is 4 cents :) Stuart On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Kirk Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/22/2014 08:24 AM, Charles Buckley wrote: > ... snip > > > You want people to adopt LinuxCNC? You have to tie it to a new machine > that > > is cutting edge, then bill it as open source. Right now, Instructables is > ... snip > > Hows about: > http://www.tormach.com/product_lathe.html > > -- > Kirk Wallace > http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ > http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Addressee is the intended audience. If you are not the addressee then my consent is not given for you to read this email furthermore it is my wish you would close this without saving or reading, and cease and desist from saving or opening my private correspondence. Thank you for honoring my wish. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
