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[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

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.