> >> > >> When Jobs and Wozniak were tinkering in that garage, the dominant > >> computer hardware was System/370. They were wise not to try to > >> compete with that. > > > > jobs and woz used a disruptive technology (the integrated circuit) to > > compete with the bigger hardware. > > And FOSS is disruptive technology, for sure.
FOSS is a disruptive technology when you have a large number of developers, Each working part time or being payed from their job. This isn't the case with geda. > > > > > geda and pcb lag far behind in interoperability with other layout > > programs and with vendor support for capabilities such as programming > > their flying probe testers. > > I've never used pcb, so I can't comment. But gEDA is a great front > end to every layout flow I've encountered. > > > I agree the geda works as a front end tool. But you can't take a geda schematic and send it to an orcad user and do them any good. Nor can you take an orcad file and use it. This is a very tall wall which stops people from being able to work together. > > > > Would open office be as big a player if it couldn't handle doc and xls > > files? > > > > Different game. The big tools can't even interoperate with each > other: ever try to exchange a design with EDIF (shudder)? > A different game? I think not. See the tall wall discussion above. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
