[Gllug] Thoughts on the breadth of Free Software

[Rich Walker]

John G Walker <johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> writes:

> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:12:19 +0100 "Dan Stevens (IAmAI)"
> <dan.stevens.iamai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've got my final year of university coming up and as a result, I have
>> to start thinking about my dissertation. I'm aspiring to develop
>> something to become ultimately free software that might be useful to
>> at least some people. 
>
> Aspire to do something that'll teach you a lot and will impress the
> marker with how much you've learned.
>
> Believe me, what you produce for a dissertation might seem great while
> you're doing it, but, in a year's time, it'll seem well below your
> capabilities. You might stop working at the end of the year, but your
> brain will keep working subconsciously on the problem.
>
> By all means get ideas from the list and do something interesting.
> But be prepared to throw your work all away and start again when the
> course has ended,

Well, there's no decent CAM software for Linux.

(That might be - there's no decent CAM software).

There's commercial CAD at the high end, and weird Free CAD (Anyone
managed to make any sense out of Varkon?), but there's no CAM software.

cheers, Rich.


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