It was in response to comparisons being made to commercial software such as Apple, Microsoft, Google and Tormach. Money is not required to make progress, it sometimes makes it faster, though.
The work that is going on right now to make Path Pilot run on any machine that can run Linuxcnc makes me think of those people who make "hackintoshes". Apple's operating system is priced low compared to Microsoft's (and arguably works better), but it is designed to work with Apple's hardware and if someone wants to put it on a system that isn't Apple they have to think of work arounds to persuade the software that it is running on Apple hardware. My guess is that Path pilot is probably easier to use than Mach 3 or Mach 4 and easier for Tormach to support which is why they made the decision to move away from their previous software offerings. I don't know the facts, but I would bet that money made Path Pilot happen (relatively quickly) for Tormach. Rather than run up against possible licensing issues, it would be nice to see a reverse engineer of Path Pilot possibly with changes to make it even better, that comes as another choice of user interfaces to add to those already available. Martin ________________________________ On 11 October 2017 at 22:30, Martin Dobbins <tu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > What it needs is money, unfortunately. Why do you say that? We have got this far without any money. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
