Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Driving the parallel port in WindowXP

On Friday 11 August 2006 02:35, Lester Caine wrote:

> caudlet wrote:
> > If your intent is to give the program away in order to sell hardware
> > then EMC might be the best approach. If your intent is to make money
> > from the software piece you may find your (paying) marketplace in
> > the Linix world limited.
>
> That is probably a realistic viewpoint.
> My only incentive to playing with EMC is that it increases the profit
> margin drastically on any packaged system I build. I can get the
> hardware for 200GBP and load EMC for nothing, or currently I'm looking
> at another 200GBP to put a legal copy of Windows and Mach3 on.
> Actually its cheaper to buy a small slow tower machine which has
> WindowsXP bundled with it and cannibalize it to build the ITX based
> system :(

You know, that comment makes me, a wild-eyed linux zealot, snicker into my
beard a bit.

Caudlet is quite right that if he writes a stand-alone program for linux, or
especially for emc (which is gpl'ed), he's not going to get any money for it.

It's Kory's decision what he ends up doing, but I think he may be just writing
the code for the fun of it, in which case he should proably just code in the
os and machine controller he's comfortable using.

I'd go on about this, but I think we have enough information about everyone's
operating system and software preferences, and further kibbitzing (on my part
at least) isn't going to contribute much.

The Mach3 wizards do sound cool. Is there anything similar for emc?

-Sebastien Bailard