Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better)

On 6/22/2025 8:20 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:10:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 23:52 this Friday (GMT):

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Would you entrust mission-critical business operations to obsolete,
unsupported software?

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A lot of companies do, for one reason or another.

 Sure, it works fine ... until the day it doesn’t.

That;s true of everything.  INCLUDING FOSS products.

And then, in the words of the song, who’re ya gonna call?

Are the FOSS supporters MORE capable and attentive than
those that have taken money from you and rely on your
high opinion to promote their product to others?
dhcpd(8) doesn't support ethers(5), bootptab(5) nor networks(5).
Instead, the administrator is supposed to HARD CODE these things
in the configuration file.
How can /that/ be a good idea?  Ignorance?
How likely do you think they are going to patch the codebase
to support these things?
For a *paid* product, there is a chance that the author can
see the value in yet another feature that sets their product
apart from others, esp if it doesn't BREAK anything.
For a FOSS product, you're dealing with "personalities".
If the Maintainer(s) have a different attitude about how *you*
should use their tool, they are likely to shrug it off as
they have ALREADY ESTABLISHED PRIORITIES for their development
efforts given their limited resources available.   ("It already
works without them")