Re: Exportability of EDA industry from North America?
From: Rich Grise (richgrise_at_example.net)
Date: 01/18/05
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:50:35 GMT
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:30:50 +0000, Rick Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:46:53 -0500, Chuck Harris
> <cf-NO-SPAM-harris@erols.com> wrote:
>
>>I want to go to Debian, but I am finding it hard to get excited about
>>ripping my system apart and starting over...If only there was a safe
>>and easy way to move from RedHat to Debian...
>
> The EDA vendors only support RedHat, so I'm sticking with it, whatever
> its faults. And, finally, after all these years, we now actually have
> a professional Linux distribution, that's not just put together by
> hackers. But I'll tell you what really pi**es me off about it - they
> now charge an *annual* subscription for it. I've been buying Windoze
> distributions for 20-odd years, and I've never once had to pay an
> annual subscription. I bought my current Win2K 4 years ago, and I can
> still download updates and security fixes for free. What exactly makes
> RedHat think that they can charge year-on-year for that?
They think they can, because they can. It's pretty much that simple.
People pay them. People want Aunt-Tillie-Ready stuff, with the security
of a Linux kernel, so they pay the Redmond^H^H^H^HHat people to do all of
their configuration for them.
> If they'd
> just asked me for a one-off $200 then I'd have paid it. I'm running FC2
> now, despite having to download the whole thing.
I paid $40.00 for the 4-disk Slackware set, and I'm quite happy with it,
and it's downloadable for free. Actually, the only reason I actually paid
for it is because I want to support Mr. Volkerding and the whole Slack
mystique. ;-)
You do have to know enough about your computer to be able to manage it,
however. Or be willing to learn.
As far as "The EDA vendors only support RedHat", that could be because
Redmond^H^H^H^HHat is the only distro that _needs_ vendor support.
I'll be installing gEDA from source Real Soon Now, and I'll
give a full report.
Good Luck!
Rich
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