On 9/18/2015 5:54 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 18 September 2015 at 22:38, Ron Ginger <rongin...@roadrunner.com> wrote: >> I am not trying to push Mach on this list, I simply want the facts to be >> clear and to try to kill off rumors. > Thanks for that. > > I don't actually understand why anyone thinks that LinuxCNC is in > competition with Mach3. There is actually no advantage to LinuxCNC in > having more market share, we don't make any more money, but we have a > bigger (free) support burden. > > If people feel the need to justify their own choice by attacking Mach3 > / 4 then that's up to them, but as long as people make the parts they > want to make, then I don't care what they use. > > I do care when they take a servo/resolver Hardinge lathe and throw > away all the top-spec original parts to run Mach, when it could work > unmodified with LinuxCNC, but that's a very different reasoning.
Well..... Linux is not in competition with Mach3/4, but Mach3/4 is definitely in competition with LinuxCNC. I'm sure it was not a happy day for the Artsoft Team when Tormach went to a LinuxCNC/Machinekit solution. Most of us were only aware of the change after it happened, but as it turned out, we got a new planner out of it! :-) (Plus likely several other fixes) Dave --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
