On 18/09/15 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.
My current 'production' suite is Turbocad15, EasyPC14, vCarve5 and Mach3 oldish build. It does what I need but I've got FreeCAD and KiCAD on the linux setup and have been trying to migrate, but neither now install as a latest version on SUSE13.1, bring stuck a few versions back, so I've just rebuilt the backup machine to SUSE Tumbleweed ... and that is even more of a problem. We definitely seem to be going backwards rather than forward? The version of FreeCAD running on 13.1 is working fine, and while I can run schematics in KiCAD,the only way to print is export as a pdf. One wonders if big outfits getting involved is simply detrimental to open source projects? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
