Re: gEDA-user: free-open workarounds similar to SolidWorks

["evan foss" <evanfoss@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/6/08, John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rob Butts wrote:
>  > Hey John,
>  >
>  > I spoke to a local vocational high school's drafting department who couldn't
>  > wait to get their hands on this project.  I gave them the measurements of my
>  > backrest and they are running with this.  It gives their students a chance
>  > to work on a real project, to help the disabled and to use the more advanced
>  > features of their software.  I couldn't beat the pice since it's free!
>
>
> Oh.  That's just "free as in beer", not freedom.

I just have to wonder aloud what would happen if someone made a beer
that was actually open sourced. Stallman would have to make a new
saying to avoid confusion.

>
>  It's sad you didn't try out ideas here before sending that expensive
>  first job to the machining job shop.
>
>  And besides us, there are plenty of artist machinists you could talk
>  with about fabbing one off shapes, they're just on different lists
>  related to emc2, small milling machines, etc.
>
>
>  JG
>
>
>
>  _______________________________________________
>  geda-user mailing list
>  geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
>


-- 
http://www.coe.neu.edu/~efoss/
http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/


_______________________________________________
geda-user mailing list
geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user