Yes, I think there is no choice but to reverse engineer PathPilot. However the best place to start is by looking at the source code and seeing what they did. As for licensing I'd bet much of it is GPL'd and some is closed source. Even the GPL's stuff is going to be very specific to Tormach hardware so as I said, no choice but to look,
Anyone got link to the source code Tormach has released under GPL? On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Martin Dobbins <tu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
