Re: gEDA-user: Building geda under Windows

[Al Davis <ad62@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 05 March 2005 10:05 am, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote:
> > We should target the educational market.  To get there, we
> > need to make it prettier and easier to use than the cripple
> > ware they use now.  We have some substantial advantages in
> > this market.  We should exploit them.
>
> Educational market is in my opinion covered with the
> crippeled versions of about any tool that has an educational
> version.

Educational market is BURDENED with the crippled versions.....  
Some of them are so crippled that teachers cripple the 
assignments to fit the crippled software.  Students can't rerun 
their homework assignment a year after they graduate.  When 
they run out of time in the lab, they can't finish it at home.

When I say "target the educational market" I mean to provide 
real tools, that the students can take home, study, use for 
real work, and continue using after they graduate.

Educational market is also burdened with overweight, hard to 
use, overkill tools designed for huge projects.  They get all 
the baggage but will never use 99% of the features.

We should provide smaller tools that work well for smaller jobs, 
the kind that might be done by small shops and hobbyists.  We 
do!

> The effort of sweeten up  the application with 
> artificial sugar should rather be invested in making the
> applications work better with each other.

Absolutely!!  The down side of our tools is in how they work 
together.