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Re: gEDA-user: fritzing
Dave McGuire wrote:
> On May 10, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Chris Smith wrote:
[...]
>> I am about to start work on a project with another engineer who uses
>> Windows. I would dearly love to use gEDA for this project, however I
>> respect his choice of OS and thus we will be forced to use something
>> like Eagle instead.
>
Yes, and mostly the default is OrCad these days. Occasionally I have a
client that uses another system such as MicroCad or Cadsoft. None use
gEDA so far but there's always hope ;-)
> Yes, but look at the bigger picture. He's most likely using
> Windows because someone (his boss perhaps?) forced HIM to. I don't
> know *anyone* who actually chooses to use Windows because they prefer
> it over their other choices.
>
In my case there is no boss. I'm da boss :-)
But: There is tons of SW and HW that simply refuses to work with Linux
or any OS other than Windows. Some of if requires XP or older, no Vista.
Yet I need all that to serve my clients.
> And, that said, there's nothing preventing the vendor of Eagle
> (into whom your new project will presumably be locked) from writing
> gEDA file format I/O into their software to facilitate
> interoperability...but you know as well as I do that interoperability
> is the last thing proprietary software vendors want.
>
Actually you'd be surprised. They have said that they'd embrace EDA
cooperation in this respect but that this ain't the case with many other
vendors.
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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