Having spent most of my career in marketing (for DEC) I well remember all the market research we tried to do to determine volumes and user base. For all you might say about Autodesk I do not think they are dumb, someone there has done some careful market analysis to see if they ought to do a linux version.
One of the very hard things about linuxCnc is that it is impossible to know how many sites are really using it. Clearly you cannot simply count the number of downloads of the software- many of them were never installed, or do not continue to be used. I am certainly happy it is not my job to estimate the linuxCNC market share- I would not know how to do that with any useful accuracy. ron ginger > From: Bruce Layne <linux...@thinkingdevices.com> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] CAD/CAM for LinuxCNC > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <55fc91a8.4070...@thinkingdevices.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > .......... > Several of us who were advocating for Linux support on the AutoDesk > forum were summarily dismissed in a manner that felt like ridicule and > derision. It's a lost opportunity for AutoDesk. Despite their recent > products targeting the large market consisting of small shops, I guess > they still don't understand their market and they'll continue to lose > out on some low hanging fruit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
