Dave McGuire wrote: > On May 10, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Chris Smith wrote: [...]
>> I am about to start work on a project with another engineer who uses >> Windows. I would dearly love to use gEDA for this project, however I >> respect his choice of OS and thus we will be forced to use something >> like Eagle instead. > Yes, and mostly the default is OrCad these days. Occasionally I have a client that uses another system such as MicroCad or Cadsoft. None use gEDA so far but there's always hope ;-) > Yes, but look at the bigger picture. He's most likely using > Windows because someone (his boss perhaps?) forced HIM to. I don't > know *anyone* who actually chooses to use Windows because they prefer > it over their other choices. > In my case there is no boss. I'm da boss :-) But: There is tons of SW and HW that simply refuses to work with Linux or any OS other than Windows. Some of if requires XP or older, no Vista. Yet I need all that to serve my clients. > And, that said, there's nothing preventing the vendor of Eagle > (into whom your new project will presumably be locked) from writing > gEDA file format I/O into their software to facilitate > interoperability...but you know as well as I do that interoperability > is the last thing proprietary software vendors want. > Actually you'd be surprised. They have said that they'd embrace EDA cooperation in this respect but that this ain't the case with many other vendors. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
