Professional Quality CAD on Linux with DraftSight (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 5, 2011 21:43 UTC (Tue) by einstein (guest, #2052)
Parent article: Professional Quality CAD on Linux with DraftSight (Linux.com)

While it would be great to have FOSS software packages with these capabilities, it would be foolish to spurn this offering, which fills a real need, on rigid ideological grounds.

IMHO It's a foot in the door, and a welcome first step.

Professional Quality CAD on Linux with DraftSight (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 6, 2011 2:11 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

On the other hand, if this release is due to legal wrangling between CAD vendors, it might not be a good idea to get too reliant on it. I'd guess that, in 5 years, it will be no longer available from the authors and require installing old versions of libraries to get it to run if you can track it down.