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For the longest time BRL was "open source". But you had to be an american citizen and in the inner circle of govt contractors/employee's. A lot of paperwork wa
by spitfire 18y ago
For the longest time BRL was "open source". But you had to
be an american citizen and in the inner circle of govt contractors/employee's. A lot of paperwork was involved.
Nice to see it's really real open source now.
Downloading now. Wonder if it still has the horrid text based interface.
- niels_olson 18y agoedit: the interface isn't as bad as I thought at first. Do need to spend time getting used to it though. It's not as sexy out-of-the-box as AutoCAD, but the underlying geometric method gives me hope for long term performance. I hope the Google Summer of Code project makes some headway on interface. I definitely don't want to see more "GUIs are for the weak", a la the R project.
- hsmyers 18y agoAt one point I remember having every form of input device I could find hooked up to AutoCad when working as a plans architect (high class draftsman/flunky) A huge GTECO digitizer, two touch/membrane keypads, The IBM keyboard (one with twice as many function keys...) a mouse and a trackball and I still wanted more! Sigh...