FreeCAD on the web

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adrianinsaval wrote: Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:24 pm What makes those more fit for FreeCAD than any other PC?
FreeCAD supports party multithreading/mulitcore, the (pretty) ever other commercial not (does not mean, that FreeCAD is faster).

adrianinsaval wrote: Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:24 pm looks kind of scammy
It is surly automatic created ad.


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Hi,

FreeCAD for children! Reading age 10-18 years... Didn't someone cry about FreeCADs steep learning curve :lol: ?
I really wonder if this is legal to make money with a Open source project? looking at Linux I believe it is.
It is really ugly if you doing it without even corresponding to the project owner!

But that's the world we are living in!
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When you write a book that teach how to use a program is not making money on the program itself.

Altough making money with opensource software is not a sin.

LGPL was chosen to permit this in FreeCAD.

But yes if make lot of money with FreeCAD some donation would be a fair way to repay FreeCAD for his "existence".

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This type of monetisation is perfectly fine and legal, the guy should really hire a designer for the covers though :lol:
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adrianinsaval wrote: Mon Mar 27, 2023 12:25 am This type of monetisation is perfectly fine and legal, the guy should really hire a designer for the covers though :lol:
Probably not the best approach becoming rich fast anyway. His top seller rank in commercial graphics design is in the 5 digits range. For comparision, "Skizzenbuch" (Sketchbook - 109 empty pages) is rank #76.
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Not really FreeCAD on the web, but rather opensource on the web, 2 interesting reads on Linux Weekly News :

Chokepoint capitalism

It describes how the tech and content firms are choking out competition so that they can take the lion's share of any revenue generated before it ever reaches the artists and others who actually did the creative work.
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Amazon has been the master of this playbook, she said; the company even made a diagram to describe it (...) What's really happening is that Amazon has always focused on locking in its customers (...) Amazon then uses the money it squeezed out to subsidize prices in order to eliminate competitors who actually pay fairly
Remember that GitHub is Microsoft, and Microsoft is no stranger to under-the-belt tactics.

Free software during wartime

It's a bit concerning that we're now in this situation where Microsoft, and by proxy the post-9/11 US government, controls the largest public meeting space for free software development on the internet.
(...)
Long story short, the free-software community has long benefited from cheap hosting and communications provision. We now pay the price for our laziness, because all the infrastructure was there and was left to rot. It was just not sexy enough to maintain it
This latter will probably hit us sooner than we would like it.
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Zolko wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:06 am This latter will probably hit us sooner than we would like it.
That's not just a FreeCAD problem and not even just a FOSS problem, but a general one: if everything MS would vanish tomorrow (or even just getting unavailable, by, say, an arbitrary price increase), the world would suddenly stop functioning or at least seriously struggle. Having Twitter in one single (dubious) hand as everybody appears to be furious about is just peanuts in comparison.

Industry, society and governments are intrinsically tied to MS products. I'm afraid that battle is long lost.
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mfro wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 10:05 am if everything MS would vanish tomorrow ...
you didn't read the article, did-you ?
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Zolko wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 12:44 pm you didn't read the article, did-you ?
I did.
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