Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)
2008/6/22 Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>:
> * Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> [2008 Jun 21 10:05 -0500]:
>
>> When someone develops and maintains a FOSS solution that runs on Linux
>> that lets me interoperate with my Solidworks-using colleagues
>> flawlessly I will happily donate to the project twice what I would be
>> paying to Solid. That's a lot of money to motivate someone. Until they
>> fill that need that I have, I will continue to use the only solution
>> that exists, which is a proprietary solution.
>
> I understand what you're asking for and where you're coming from. Are
> the CAD document file formats open or are they proprietary like .doc
> and .xls, etc.? The answer is important to anyone choosing to
> implement your idea.
>
Proprietary binary formats.
Dotan Cohen
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