On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 17:13 -0700, Joerg wrote: > > IMHO that is fundamentally wrong. How many successful race car drivers > these days do you think can disassemble and re-assemble a Ferrari engine > _and_ tune it properly? >
What I heard about Michael Schumacher was that his strength was more his technical understanding about the car, which makes it possible to discuss with the tech team to improve the cat, than his driving skills. > I know several fine electronics engineers who are not at all versed in > fixing a PC, let alone install an OS. In fact, this is the majority of > top notch engineers that I know. > > It's hard for me to imagine an engineer who can not install an OS, when so many 12 years old school boys can do it. I can imagine other "top notch" people, like (financial) managers, artists, maybe mathematicians -- but that is not out target group. Of course gEDA for Windows would mean more users. But would those additional user contribute something to the project? KiCAD was available from the beginning for Windows. Based on your logic the development of KiCad should be very fast, because of all these "top notch engineers" who can use it and who can contribute. I do not know much about KiCAD, but it seems to be not too bad, and I know some people who used it on Windows. But most development seems to be still done by the original author. Best regards Stefan Saleswki _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user