people dont care as much if a piece of software is open source because they dont know what the source code even means. they want the best and what works for them. at least thats what i find...
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:19 PM, seidos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Mark: > > Qcad and DraftSight are 2d. I already showed my brother 2d open source CAD > solutions. He wasn't impressed enough to take them seriously. > > I would think the loftier ideals of "the source belonging to the people" to > be the kind of thing that might convince some individuals to feel the effort > in learning something new would be worth their time. But this is pure > speculation. > > Perhaps the community can shine some light on individuals they managed to > switch over. I got my cousin to use Linux for his server stuff (I believe > he uses Open Suse), but he was already a computer enthusiast. I know some > in the ULUG managed to switch over family members that weren't computer > enthusiasts, but i don't know the specifics of the scenarios, and why they > were able to get the user switch to stick, or even how happy the users are > with the switch. > > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Mark Garrow <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Seidos... I was just doing some cad for a friends dash on his RV9 >> airplane.. Other than QCad I found DraftSight which has a community >> edition and a pro paid version that adds just a couple of things. >> >> On the other points.. the FOSS philosophy might work more now that most >> everyone are looking to save a buck here and there. On the saving $'s >> front, many have machines that are older, slow, riddled with (you name >> it) and don't have the money to buy a new machine and/or can't find the >> reinstall disks or the money to pay anyone to do it for them. That is >> an opportunity for FOSS and Ubuntu. Although, admittedly difficult to >> find these people individually, when you do they're often open to the >> idea with some hesitation. >> >> It's tough to overcome a windows/mac user that has a specific program >> that they just have to have. >> >> Best, >> Mark Garrow >> Scunizi / Izinucs >> >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >> > > > > -- > with metta, > > seidos > http://accesstoinsight.org > http://fictionalphilosophy.org > http://wiki.ubuntu.com/seidos > http://launchpad.net/~seidos > > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > >
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