Przemek,
when I want to build (or also keep) up a business I have to be reliable
for the customers and grant continuity for my products. Therefore, I
have to demand just the same from my suppliers. I will have to put a lot
of money into my business, in most cases from loans, and have to keep
the risk of loss as low as possible. I will need banks and insurances
which want to calculate the risk of lending money to me and at which
cost. All this calls for professional solutions, as well in machinery
as in computer hard- and software, be they ingeniuous, modern, inventive
or not, they have to be reliable and calculable in the first place. A
large company with an international name gives me more of this security
than the best and most ingenious free product. This is why Linux can't
break though on the professional office market, and this is why LinuxCNC
can't make it on our professional production market. A lot simplified,
as the saying goes "if it costs nothing, it's worth nothing".
Another thing is that there are legal regulations to be licenced and
authorized to run a commercial machine shop. To be allowed open up a
production of any kind you have to have a certain degree ("Meister" in
German) from the Chamber of Crafts and Industry, preceded by a three
years apprenticeship with final exam, several years of professional
experience and a Meister school degree exam in the end. During all this
time, people get acquainted with professional equipment and want to rely
on it in their own business later on. Large companies, as is
understandable, do a lot of advertizing for these people in order to
make them stay with their equipment later when they are on their own. I
have experienced myself that shop workers insisted of buying a specific
machine without which they would refuse to grant the quality of the
products they were making.
So, there is your German "conservativism". Our dual educational system
of schools and apprenticeship with its pursuit of quality and continuity
has made Germany a blooming economy among a lot of declining countries
all around in Europe, and this only a few decades after a war that had
destroyed three quarters of all buildings, virtually all means of
production and millions of men to run this production.
Peter
Przemek Klosowski schrieb:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Peter Blodow <p.blo...@dreki.de> wrote:
>
> Fifth, considering the fact that LinuxCNC has apparently turned into a
>
>> widely commercially used system in the US (I can tell from the mail
>> group threads) which cannot work in Germany, there are not many serious
>> users hereabouts. I would doubt that there are any others than
>> hobbyists.
>>
>>
>
> Curious---why is that? inherent conservative German nature, or legal
> issues?
>
> By the way, I used Google Translate for a number of technical pages in
> Chinese/Japanese and I was impressed how useful and understandable they
> were, compared to my low expectations. Perhaps they are so good because
> that's where Google spends their efforts, or maybe 'to-English' translation
> is easier.
>
> Google translation apparently is based on statistic algorithms rather than
> on language comprehension---they have a body of known-good translations and
> base new ones on piecewise matches, or something like that. That would
> explain why quality depends on a particular from-to pair.
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