Re: gEDA-user: Building geda under Windows

[John Dozsa <jdozsa@xxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 04 March 2005 21:24, Bob Paddock wrote:
> On Friday 04 March 2005 06:18 pm, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > Here's my opinion about that:  Windows users should come to
> > gEDA on Linux, rather than porting gEDA to Windows.  I view gEDA as a
> > "killer app" which might convert some engineers to Linux.
>
> The engineers are not the problem.  It is the IT department and the people
> that control the  purse strings that are the problem.
> Find the January 9th Dilbert, it was written because of running
> PCB on Cygwin under Windows.  The IT department forcibly removed Cygwin,
> on a weekend when I could not defend my machine.  My engineer boss had
> no problems with me using PCB/Cygwin.
>

****Big Snip****

I've suggested this before, and here it goes again.  Provide a Knoppix
like CD that would allow a test drive on Intel/AMD computers.  Market
the CD as an engineers tool suite.  If gEDA is half as good as the users
claim, engineers will fight their own IT departments and get gEDA
installed.  Their managers will obviously support them once they see the
tools can do the job.  What engineering manager wouldn't like to
eliminate a commercial engineering software expense.  The CD should
include several end-to-end examples.

John Dozsa