> ... > The problem with open source CAD is you need a sponsor. The best example > is when KiCAD picked on CERN (The big European physic lab) as a paying > sponsor. The quality of KiCAD jumped upward dramatically when they were > able to hire full-time people.
Or time. picked CERN as paying sponsor, would guess peopple at CERN would make an excellent work themselves if money where spent on some extra staff. > Also, professional users want professional-level support. You can be > paying a $120K/year engineer to post questions on public forums and hope > some other engineer is able to help. It is worth paying for tech support > if your users are on salary. Know anybody who want to pay $112K/year? > Many people here, I assume have never seen good, first-tier technical > support. I used to write software and many times I'd fly out to > the user's site in Europe, the US, or Korea and just talk to them about > what they needed and watch them work. Our customers paid 7 or 8 digit > prices and got what they asked for and quite a lot more. Seems to be good business to sell support, happen to know it happen to know if it happen wooden head get support while others have to get by without, would expect this business model would be particularly good then selling consulting work. > Even open source projects need money coming in. The big ones find ways to > generate income, usually by consulting work. Less money need to be spent if using open source, drawback may be software not equally good although differences is shrinking and some time need to be spent on improvements which will also benefit others. Nicklas Karlsson _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
