On 18 Sep 2015, at 19:22, Dave Cole wrote: > On 9/18/2015 1:02 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: >> What will really happen ultimately is LinuxCNC will become the dominant CNC >> program out there for people who don't want a call home virus running on >> their PC. > > I didn't know that it actually "phoned home". That would be a problem > for me. > The licensing model is rather convoluted. Although I can understand > them trying to protect their software sales, I suspect that it also scares > away a number of potential users. > As does the need for a Motion Controller, because that makes the whole package very much more expensive than a licensed copy of MACH3. Yes; Mach4 does have the option of an add-on extra cost parallel port driver, but it is clearly not the way they want users to go. I can understand the move to motion controllers, but the total cost will do nothing to persuade the MACH3 users to migrate.
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