Re: [PLUG] OT: Linux Business Forum

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

Ironic.  A while back I was listening to a group of professors 
discussing whether they should run CAD software under Unix or Windows. 
They used to run it under Unix.  They said that for student who will be 
shopping a national job market the Unix-based CAD would be better.  For 
students shopping the local market the Windows version would be better. 
I don't know if they were crazy or not.  8^)  (This was back when I was 
still using MS DOS Shell, graphical interface to DOS.)

> I use Windows at work only cause Autodesk wont release software on Linux.
> Big companies don't want to spend the extra money to support different OS's.
> A program like Autocad 2002 which is 12+ years in the making, would make a
> Open source type cad system very hard to move to.
>  

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