Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 10, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Joerg wrote:
>>    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.

   Well, if you look in places where people buy Windows stuff, you'll  
find...Windows stuff.  I see very little Windows stuff (almost none  
actually) in my day-to-day work, because I don't live (or shop) in  
that world.  The rest of the data processing world calls this  
"Windows blinders".

>>    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.

   Wow, that is really good news.  I hadn't heard about that.

             -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL



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