Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Sep 2009 16:09 UTC
A very simple question for you. How often have you resold software that you legally purchased? Often enough, right? Well, if it's up to Autodesk, the company behind AutoCAD, you will no longer be allowed to resell your software. Update: As it turns out, the matter has already been resolved: Autodesk lost. A win for all of us.
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Member since:2009-04-08
I know nothing of AutoCAD nor this gCAD, so I cannot speak to the quality of either, but there is an alternative.
Not even close to equivalent. I am a daily AutoCAD user. I don't think that the FOSS community will be able to create anything equivalent unless one of the commercial CAD software companies open sources their product (similar to what happened with blender).
Member since:2005-07-06
I didn't even look that hard:
Perhaps next time you should try looking slightly harder. The software you link cannot in any real way be compared to AutoCAD, other than that they both have the letters C,A and D in their name.
The second problem with AutoCAD is that it is a de facto industry standard much like MS Office. So no solution will really be able to seriously compete unless it can read files created in AutoCad and use AutoCad plug-ins. Two problems which are very harder to solve, and not just for technical reasons.
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2006-08-10
I didn't even look that hard:
http://www.gcad3d.org/gCAD3D_en.htm#Home
I know nothing of AutoCAD nor this gCAD, so I cannot speak to the quality of either, but there is an alternative.
Heck, here are some more:
http://brlcad.org/
http://archimedes.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal
I understand that, and I completely agree with you. My previous comment really is from a personal user POV, so I guess it really doesn't translate well into the professional POV.
Might as well say it would be naive to have a commercial quality operating systems produced by foss advocates. But we have those, right?
Then it sounds to me as though they don't want it bad enough or they are perfectly happy with what they have now.
I don't mean to sound argumentative or come across as hostile with anyone one this, just want to keep it conversational. But I did originally say "many people" not everyone. In this case here, AutoCAD is going to be one of those programs where open source is not going to cut it for most people. But for *most* people and *most* programs, I think they could get by with a open source alternative.