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Open Source Engineering Software?

Posted by Cliff on from the better-than-a-digital-protractor dept.

pipingguy asks: "A long-time subscriber to my piping design/engineering-related discussion list inquired about Open Source engineering software (and expressed an interest in moving to Linux), citing the high cost and often poor customer support of the commercial packages. Since there are quite a few non-Software Engineers reading Slashdot, I thought I'd ask a 'somewhat larger' userbase by posting the question here. What Open Source engineering software is out there and useful?"

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  1. Hmmmm by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Troll
    citing the high cost and often poor customer support of the commercial packages

    You might want to warn him about the high cost and poor customer support of open source packages. Different costs, but costs nonetheless.

    Vertical applications is one area where free software has a long way to catch up still.