Re: gEDA-user: gEDA gets some great press!

[Stephen Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Isn't that the cool thing about open source... when they say.... it 
doesn't do that... I ask... when will you add that?

As for user support....I say.... I had a recent...ok last year... issue 
with altera and their software that wouldn't run due to lisence issues 
on anything other then a windows nt 3.5 system. I chased down the issue 
and found that the lisencing software from globe trotter/macro media 
that needed upgrading. It should have been an easy fix but it took 
months... the only pc i could get the shit ^h^h^h^h software to run on 
was a 166Mhz laptop that had the right version of MS NT running on it. 
So you want to tell me about customer support? Give me an online open 
source user group any day!

Steve Meier

John Eaton wrote:

> Ales Hvezda wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Thought I'd pass this along:
> >
> > http://www.eedesign.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=55301354
> >
> > Many thanks to all who contribute and use gEDA.
> >
> > -Ales
> >
> >
> >  
> Good article.
>
> It always irk's me when someone says that Open Source isn't
> "professional caliber" or lacks user support. CAD software is
> complex and everyone has bug's and anomilies. gEDA is no
> worse than some of the stuff I had to pay for. Commercial
> vendors are always trying to cram in more  new features
> and want to  lock  in their users .  Open source is much more
> aligned with the end user's best interest and doesn't play those
> games.
>
> I have had supported comercial software where you call them and
> say "your tool doesn't work when I do  this" and they respond
> " don't do that".
>
> John Eaton