Richmond, Thanks for the CAD links. Once again you've shown your value to the list. (smile)
I had not heard of either MEDUSA4 and Draftsight. Joe Wilkins Architect On Feb 25, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 02/25/2012 08:27 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: >> Frankly, Richmond, though I almost always enjoy your commentaries, I would >> really like to see LC lists for both Linux and iOS diverted to special lists >> for those two topics; particularly as newbies to either of these variants of >> LC "stumble" their way around, causing me, and others I'm sure, to >> needlessly delete them when they pop-up on my InBox. It's pretty irritating >> and time consuming. For no reason and very little gain that I can see. Just >> MHO on a Sunday morning, > Joe (and others), at the risk of making you further cheesed-off (and in > Bulgaria it is still Saturday night): > > I suspect your attitude is the majority one; seeing everything except for Mac > and Windows as a minority interest area. > > I develop for Mac, Windows and Linux, and don't really see things in quite > this way. > > I am well aware that the vast majority of PC users favour Windows, followed > by bout 10% who favour Mac. > > I suspect that those developers who are producing stuff for iOS feel much the > same about their work. > > Many long years ago I developed some stuff for RISC OS; and chose to ignore > Mac and Windows; feeling that they were marginal > in the European theatre of computing; suddenly when RISC disappeared up its > own bottom, I was left looking a bit foolish; as were > the thousands of schools in Britain that had shovelled a lot of money into > RISC machines such as the Archimedes. > > It might just be that those who don't keep their eye on what, just now, look > like minority forces, may look a bit odd shortly. > >> >> Joe Wilkins >> Architect > > I have just returned from setting up a machine running Ubuntu 10.04 with > MEDUSA4 and Draftsight: > > http://www.cad-schroer.com/Software/MEDUSA4/ > > http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/overview/ > > A very high-profile architect here in Bulgaria. > > He is fed to the back teeth with his office Windows systems crashing left, > right and centre and so has opted for > a workable Linux solution. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
