[cad-linux] Re: Open-source Parametric software for Architect[OT]
- From: Guy Edwards <guy_j_edwards@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 14 Sep 2002 19:08:32 +0100
my emails are somewhat more basic I'm afraid :-)
On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 17:59, Vishal wrote:
[snip]
> But then why would you want to switch to GNU-Linux? AutoCad works well,
> MSWindows works great too, ok, maybe a few GPFs here and there.. but so
> what?
I know what you're saying and I'm not disagring but just thought I'd
point something out what software stability costs.
If there's 6 of us in the company and each Windows machine crashes twice
a day, loosing 10 minutes of work, taking you another 10 minutes to
recreate that work and perhaps 2.5 minutes for the reboot, thats 45
minutes lost perday x 6 people in my old company, is 4hours 30min lost
worktime per day from OS crashes. I've not exagerated on the number of
crashes. Now times that by your hourly pay and the days per year you do
CAD work and you get an idea of how much being forced to use a rubbish
OS is costing small businesses.
You could set your autosave to a much shorter time period of course,
(every 5minutes? 2minutes?) but then it becomes more inconvenient (I
seem to remember it used to autosave at what seemed like the most
awkward moments :-)
[more snippin]
> Apart, I think if even one open source initiative can be made successful,
> there would be developers of proprietory software coming forward to develop
> extensions.
Yes, I prefer very much, the practice of people like Sun when they enter
initatives that help Open Source like OpenOffice.org. I could see a lot
of companies being amazed that Sun would provide a licence to their code
that allows a potentially competitive product to be created along aside
their own commercial product, but in reality it's working great.
I can live with commercial software when I have a choice between it and
an open source alternative, and usually they both have slightly
different qualities.
And of course I like completely free products that allow commercial
companies to survive through providing support and packaging. (I believe
Snort's supposed to be quite sucessful like this?)
I think big commercial companies have a place in Open Source software,
and it's kind of handy to have them on your side when some other large
corportation tries to pull a fast one (eg MS).
Guy
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