Duncan Drennan wrote: > I think John Luciani has pretty much demonstrated that this is > possible with a bit of work. All that now needs to happen is for > people to start adopting gEDA - but that is a whole different story, > which requires strong marketing.
It's more than a little work. I think marketing is needed to deal with the image oriented way most people function in the world. Such as asking for professional help. Help with an image. Without some kind of image creation effort on our part, we are left with the image of "good luck...hah!", and we will be lucky to get even small engineering companies to adopt gEDA tools. It's much more realistic to expect to adopt using pcb in a small company that will train an employee to take work load off a founder than to expect "consultant services" to flourish. The incumbent CAD vendors have some market share by having default history of libraries even if they are not good ones. That's like the marketing of mediocrity Microsoft style...so how do you get dominant market share in a community developed free tool? You don't. It's fragmented by its very nature. It's the nature of circuit designers and layout designers to develop personal best script driven methods that are different a little form person to person -- that's the source of the fragmented styles of CAD use. John Griessen -- Ecosensory Austin TX tinyOS devel on: ubuntu Linux; tinyOS v2.0.2; telosb ecosens1 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
