On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:42:59PM -0800, Allen Brown wrote: > Jeff wrote: > >Not just feedback. It's saying that access to specialized knowledge > >has increased the # of programmers => more code => less $/byte , > >particularly when the userbase is big. People will give code away > >for the same reasons they do unpaid internships - it (hopefully) > >helps their careers. The exception (in the article), "vertical > >software markets", have fewer users with greater needs. I think > >CAD software fits this model; there are very few open source/free > >CAD packages out there and most are simply demos. Autocad, Pro-E > >and the like are still spendy packages but if you're in the business > >you have to buy them. Of course even the CAD market has a sort of > >o.s. "community" - there are oodles of parts libraries and macros > >out there free for the downloading. > > Funny you should mention CAD. I can tell you that in electronic > design the CAD software is painful. Designers have to be pretty > good script writers to patch around the holes in the methodologies > and the bugs in the tools. The field is very ripe for open source > where the designers could go in and fix those damn bugs.
and so it is such a shame that Andrew Mustun does not make the latest qcad sources, that his paid-for versions are built from, available. the "community" version, for which the sources are available, are older versions. http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
