It is the laziest reason to act like FrEeDoM is why people should use shit software. How about making your Open source software as good - god forbid better - than the competition to where people WANT to willingly use it? It is the endless cycle with open-source software where it is clearly written by people who have no clue about the way the very same software they are developing is actually being used. They are programmers, not drafters or engineers. And it isn’t just FreeCAD but so much other open source software out there that is junk-grade because someone just wanted to write some code and maybe learn a new programming technique but never went to the trouble of learning HOW that software would actually be used by real users.
In short, this is like the “mom, can we get Solidworks? No we have CAD software at home. The CAD software at home is FreeCAD” meme. oof
It is the laziest reason to act like FrEeDoM is why people should use shit software. How about making your Open source software as good - god forbid better - than the competition to where people WANT to willingly use it? It is the endless cycle with open-source software where it is clearly written by people who have no clue about the way the very same software they are developing is actually being used. They are programmers, not drafters or engineers. And it isn’t just FreeCAD but so much other open source software out there that is junk-grade because someone just wanted to write some code and maybe learn a new programming technique but never went to the trouble of learning HOW that software would actually be used by real users.
In short, this is like the “mom, can we get Solidworks? No we have CAD software at home. The CAD software at home is FreeCAD” meme. oof
The world needs free/libre software. You can complain all you want but at the end of the day freeCAD is the best cad software that is fully libre.
I will say you do make a good point about usability. FreeCAD really needs to rework it’s UI