Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:42:20 -0600, John Doty wrote:

>> His judgement is pretty much dead on.  Many people on this list are
>> openly hostile to Windows users,
> 
> The only hostility I see is to the attitude:

Yet, the rest of your post is a perfect example for general windows 
hostility.


> We're not a programming team implementing what Marketing wants. We're a
> bunch of computer-savvy users implementing what we intend to use. That's
> our strength. That's why gEDA is different. That's why gEDA is a sharp
> toolkit for the computer-savvy.

It is remarkably blunt in certain aspects. Aspects, that are very 
relevant to EDA. Lack of backannotation and a more than stony interaction 
with simulation tools are just two of them.


> I wouldn't call Word easy to use. An extremely dull tool.

No hostility here, nah...


> But the nice thing about free software is that we can clone the 
> dull tool as OpenOffice

Note, that ooffice wasn't free at all when conceived as staroffice. 
Giving it away for free was a last resort  marketing move to save the 
project from oblivion.


> I very much hope that gEDA does not evolve into a dull tool.

I very much hope, evolution into a better EDA tool is not blocked by 
dogmatism.

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