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Hi Gudeta!

by Yorik on 05.07.2011

Commenting post 106: Hi Gudeta!

Good point, I added inkscape, thanks for reminding!

About developers being paid, I think this is a very long discussion... Basically everyone should be free to do what he wants, I want to work "for free" on FreeCAD because I want the software, and I don't want someone to "own" it and decide for me what I need and what I don't need. This has in theory nothing to do with being paid or not. For example if someone wants to pay me a couple of programming hours to add such or such feature, why not?

I think the whole issue is there, if you can do some good work that someone is willing to pay you to do, you shouldn't bother about if it is free software or not, you will earn money. It is your skills that give you money, not your job. The fact that free software costs nothing is actually more a side-effect. Note that there is also software that costs nothing but is not free (many CAD clones for example), and free software that give money (I think of the humble bundles games for example, where they earned a lot of money and ended up releasing many games as open source). It is a very complex world

About FreeCAD being like Revit, unfortunately, at the current rythm, it'll take a long, long time...

by Yorik on 05.07.2011