Oh, I would say many open source solutions have effectively put alot of software out of business or severely reduced the cost of many. But CAD is just an example where highly specialized software is just hard to create, and the Masters of that Universe continue to get paid by big money, so it is a hard nut to crack when the best developers in that market are getting paid very well. It's the same with PCB software, highly specialized solution. Sure you can get some damn good software for free, but is it really as good as the paid versions? Not really.
Not that it matters, the Open Source versions are VERY useful. Especially for Hackers like all of us. `,~) John Vaughters On Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 09:14:23 AM EDT, Pete Soper via TriEmbed <[email protected]> wrote: Hey, Linux caught up with Solaris in many regards, so it isn't always the case that open source is always second class. :-) :-) :-) -Pete On 4/14/20 8:48 AM, John Vaughters via TriEmbed wrote: > Jeff, > > You are going to be disappointed with FreeCAD. Open Source CAD has not and > probably will never catch up to paid versions. But for those on a budget and > has time, open source is still pretty good and useful. > > John Vaughters > > _______________________________________________ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: [email protected] List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe _______________________________________________ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: [email protected] List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
