Re: Digest Number 56

Actually, I subbed to the EMC list over at nist.gov about a week before this
one took off. There's really no activity on that one to speak of; just a
message every other day or so.

I gotta ask an ugly question: Does Uncle Sugar have 2 FTE's or thereabouts
cranking on an open-architecture CNC software system/product just so that 3
dozen galoots can have lots of fun in their garages? From what I can tell,
there's 2-maybe-3 of us that are using EMC to make a profit. The NIST site
mentions some GM involvement, and it does seem reasonable to think that this
stuff would enhance American competitiveness etc., but ......? What does
this EMC project do that makes it worth $1/4M/yr +/- to you and me?
Enquiring minds want to know.

--dan fox, who meant the question in the spirit of open inquiry but is
sending his best asbestos suit out to be cleaned in the expectation of
needing it real soon anyways

Message: 13
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:58:24 -0700
From: garfield@... (Gar Willis)
Subject: Re: List question

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:37:52 -0600, "Tim Goldstein"
<timg@...> wrote:

>Actually, Fred Proctor (the honcho that is in charge of EMC over at the
>NIST) posted to the EMC list that they should subscribe here as there was
>more active discussion on EMC subjects here.(heavy paraphrase of his
>posting)

Good heavens, now WHY would he do a thing like that?? Oh well, I guess
it works both ways, eh? But IF that's the case, that's perhaps mutha
naicha's way of suggesting that the focus of a purely EMC list is
sub-optimally narrow? But geez, how can that be?; EMC alone is no
smallish puppy, in itself. Guess I dunno.

It's a problem similar to evolution maybe, that shows just how much
diversity or focus is the best balance. A successful organism is a
flexible one. Heh.

Gar