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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I have both here, and concur they are worthy products.
But open source is not a magic bullet. The same considerations I mentioned that apply to commercial software apply to it, and are the reasons why open source hasn't achieved a far wider penetration. Once you have invested the time and effort to master any relatively complex software, there's inherent resistance to switching.
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I agree. For me, moving to a Windows situation would decimate my productivity (especially for my electronics design). Given that I don't have to collaborate with anyone else oh a daily basis and when I do have to I can share in open/standard formats, the path of picking up Open-source packages works well for me.
That said there are situations where I do use commercial software on Linux despite their being open-source alternatives (such as using 'Eagle PCB' rather than 'kicad' or 'gEDA').
I guess what I was saying originally is that there are several viable options for those of us who have the liberty of being able to do so (eg, not constricted due to industry defacto).
.... I see we've drifted waaaaaay off topic now.
Paul.