Reminds me of when I worked for an ISP and telco at the turn of the century. They installed a calling card phone at a food processing plant. The thing looked massive and it was quite expensive. The heavy steel box was 99.9% empty space. The phone electronics were on a circuit board the size of the keypad.
On 10/22/2014 1:46 PM, Pete Matos wrote: > unfortunately that is completely accurate. There is BIG money in keeping > the commercial controls proprietary and away from the open source cheap and > free options. In my view that is never gonna change but what it does do is > make THOUSANDS of nice used machines available for scrap prices just > because the owner got sick and tired of dumping umpteen thousands of > dollars into a control that is less than a decade old or so. It is a > vicious cycle not all that unlike the cellphone wars and PC wars we see in > other avenues. People gotta make money tho so I can't fault them. I would > not want someone to rip the carpet out from underneath my feet either if I > had ownership and royalties coming in from a system I built and sold. It's > the nature of things nowadays it seems. > > Pete > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:35 PM, jrmitchellj . <jrmitche...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> If those service techs understood what is really inside, at the core of >> those expensive, name brand control systems! >> Their job is to sell the end user module based repairs that cost several >> thousands of dollars. >> The commodity based solution, like a LinuxCNC installation, does not fit >> that paradigm, and cannot support them. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
