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

[Stephen Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually I wasn't... If the damn tool had run on windows 98 or windows 
xp or windows nt 4.0 or windows 2000 I would have loaded it on a new 
machine.... but it didn't (and I tried them all.. and i went and 
researched the lisencing software and its bug issues so I know what I am 
talking about.)  So my experience didn't match yours. And I am punishing 
Altera by using xilinx.

Bad support being a damn good way of getting rid of customers.

Steve Meier

David Howland wrote:

> Stephen Meier wrote:
>
> > 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 
>
>
> "Last year"?  Why were you still using NT 3.5 in 2003?  It may be 
> difficult to get support, but in my experience the vendor tools are 
> never so bad that you need an OS from 10 yrs ago, be it Atera, Xilinx, 
> Synopys, MG, whatever...
>
> -d