On May 10, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Joerg wrote: >> Yes, but look at the bigger picture. He's most likely using >> Windows because someone (his boss perhaps?) forced HIM to. I don't >> know *anyone* who actually chooses to use Windows because they prefer >> it over their other choices. >> > In my case there is no boss. I'm da boss :-) > > But: There is tons of SW and HW that simply refuses to work with Linux > or any OS other than Windows. Some of if requires XP or older, no > Vista. > Yet I need all that to serve my clients.
Well, if you look in places where people buy Windows stuff, you'll find...Windows stuff. I see very little Windows stuff (almost none actually) in my day-to-day work, because I don't live (or shop) in that world. The rest of the data processing world calls this "Windows blinders". >> And, that said, there's nothing preventing the vendor of Eagle >> (into whom your new project will presumably be locked) from writing >> gEDA file format I/O into their software to facilitate >> interoperability...but you know as well as I do that interoperability >> is the last thing proprietary software vendors want. >> > Actually you'd be surprised. They have said that they'd embrace EDA > cooperation in this respect but that this ain't the case with many > other > vendors. Wow, that is really good news. I hadn't heard about that. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user