On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:42:20 -0600, John Doty wrote: >> His judgement is pretty much dead on. Many people on this list are >> openly hostile to Windows users, > > The only hostility I see is to the attitude:
Yet, the rest of your post is a perfect example for general windows hostility. > We're not a programming team implementing what Marketing wants. We're a > bunch of computer-savvy users implementing what we intend to use. That's > our strength. That's why gEDA is different. That's why gEDA is a sharp > toolkit for the computer-savvy. It is remarkably blunt in certain aspects. Aspects, that are very relevant to EDA. Lack of backannotation and a more than stony interaction with simulation tools are just two of them. > I wouldn't call Word easy to use. An extremely dull tool. No hostility here, nah... > But the nice thing about free software is that we can clone the > dull tool as OpenOffice Note, that ooffice wasn't free at all when conceived as staroffice. Giving it away for free was a last resort marketing move to save the project from oblivion. > I very much hope that gEDA does not evolve into a dull tool. I very much hope, evolution into a better EDA tool is not blocked by dogmatism. ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6C0B9F53 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user