thomas-neemann wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 12:46 pm
that's how microsoft thought about linux. Microsoft has changed its mind
Hardly. Realizing that Windows is unlikely to scale as their future required and realizing there was something to address that situation with application of minimal resources (what ended up as Mariner and WSL) was a business move. Linux was not impacting their sales. It was in fact a way to add to their sales numbers.
I've sat in meetings in the largest CAD players. Things like FreeCAD are just background noise. In the late 1980's Computervison (arguably one the largest player in the 1980's) knew of the upstart AutoDesk. Even during Computervisions death throws in the 1990's, they just didn't see AutoDesk as their competitor. Until Fortune 500 companies start adopting FreeCAD, in lieu of names like Dassault and others, FreeCAD will continue to be background noise. And, to get those companies to adopt FreeCAD, there needs to be far more seamless integration of modern tools like FEM, animation, other analysis and simulation tools, and PDM.
ragohix769 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 12:52 pm
Of course. But it's very very significant and important that in a presenteation for a really big company like Dassault they use a FOSS piece of Software like FreeCAD to declare why their product it's better!
Yet it is not particularly positive press is it? In the first slide he uses FreeCAD as an example of "the disconnected process" and "a discouraging experience".
In later slides he describes "the cumbersome process" with FreeCAD as the poster child and says the "experience is not satisfying". And, in this clip FreeCAD is never mentioned by name by the presentor (unless I missed it...).
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Spock: "...His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking."