[Lbw] Fax server and CAD for Linux?

[Henry Spencer]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Howard Gibson wrote:

>    All the big 3D CAD packages extensively use
> third party code which is proprietary, and which represents the primary
> income stream for the copyright holders.  It seems to me, this should not
> stop them from writing data files out in a publically documented format. 

Unfortunately, the harder it is for their users to change to a different
package, the more secure that income stream looks.  From that narrow
perspective, they have every reason to use proprietary file formats. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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