From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 4 13:32:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from messiah.megadeb.org (cpe.atm0-0-0-218131.arcnxx5.customer.tele.dk [62.242.79.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B998B37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:32:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chopra@runbox.com) Received: (from chopra@localhost) by messiah.megadeb.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f54KYIb13805 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:34:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from chopra) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:34:17 +0200 From: Munish Chopra To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article Message-ID: <20010604223417.B10655@messiah.megadeb.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010604200851.A65559@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010604200851.A65559@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 08:08:51PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 08:08:51PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > Yet-Another-Window-Manager and Me-Too email clients, and contrast that with > the glaring lack of good CAD, circuit design, desktop publishing, and other > such special application tools. Disclaimer: if i am unaware of a tool that > fills one of these needs to the degree that it is or can be professionally > accepted and used as well as an existing commercial product, by all means, i > stand corrected. But i would dare say the exceptions are few and far > between. I have been hoping for the past couple of years that some university CS club (think Berkeley, MIT, Waterloo, Stanford, etc.) would take up something like this as a project...after all that's how Gimp (and others) got started. BTW, isn't 'spice' accepted as a competitive circuit design tool? -- -Munish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message