Pretty interesting idea infact, foreigners have problems with local language, and a PDA can be packed with travel guidelines, translation programs, audio and video instructions to reach places and all. Infact the translator software can also speak out in local languages saving the poor visitor exercising his vocal skills. With images and video, tourists will get much better idea of what to expect on all the possible tourist spots and can make more informed decisions. Hyperlink nature of digital content and facility to search makes it orders of magnitude more useful for documentation than paper pamplets. And if the cost of PDA is a concern they can allot it based on Passport and collect it when the tourists leave the country. Should save the PDA from becoming extinct I guess.
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The GPL says that code that is not released to the public (in other words: in-house software) do not have to have it's code released!
IANAL, but as I understand your employees will have an option of demanding and releasing the source code as GPL. Am not saying its necessarily a problem, just that something you may keep in mind before taking related decisions.
I have seen set of 20 CDs containing ProE for linux. I would be really surprised to see some CAD/CAM/CAE software (ADAMS, ANSYS, IDEAS, Solidworks etc) not having cross platform support. I am doing a project with some company in India which provide mechanical CAD/CAE solution to Solidworks, ProE and Catia, and trust me they have developed custom UI and other toolkits which are truely platform independent.
Its only Office applications, due to vested interests of MS, that are not ported.
As a mechanical engineer, I have all I need on linux.
All I can say is that if I was MS, I'd
do it. Why not, after all? It's cheap,
effective and not in itself illegal.
I thought the same too, just that its a bit operationally "risky". Given the way MS does its work ( no idea about how these things happen in corporations in general, just picking ideas from "halloween's" ) they will prepare a memo on it, and for this to be effective, it wont be just circulated to the top brass, rather will be given away to almost everyone, esp the lower order. Sooner or later it will be leaked out, bringing a lot of undue reputation with little returns.
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Pretty interesting idea infact, foreigners have problems with local language, and a PDA can be packed with travel guidelines, translation programs, audio and video instructions to reach places and all. Infact the translator software can also speak out in local languages saving the poor visitor exercising his vocal skills. With images and video, tourists will get much better idea of what to expect on all the possible tourist spots and can make more informed decisions. Hyperlink nature of digital content and facility to search makes it orders of magnitude more useful for documentation than paper pamplets. And if the cost of PDA is a concern they can allot it based on Passport and collect it when the tourists leave the country. Should save the PDA from becoming extinct I guess.
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"We know the hardware vendor, but can anyone comment on the choice of OS?"
Yes I can. It is linux.
Thats wrong as of today. See this
The GPL says that code that is not released to the public (in other words: in-house software) do not have to have it's code released!
IANAL, but as I understand your employees will have an option of demanding and releasing the source code as GPL. Am not saying its necessarily a problem, just that something you may keep in mind before taking related decisions.
You mean like:
$ ls
chap1.sxw
$ file chap1.sxz
chap1.sxw: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract
$ unzip chap1.sxw
Archive: chap1.sxw
extracting: Pictures/10000000000002BB000000E0A5892BF2.jpg
extracting: Pictures/10000000000001AA000000E98217936A.jpg
extracting: Pictures/10000000000001CD000000FB9C72793D.jpg
extracting: Pictures/10000000000001C30000010DA8FFD18C.jpg
extracting: Pictures/100000000000026B000000B59CB54057.jpg
extracting: layout-cache
inflating: content.xml
inflating: styles.xml
extracting: meta.xml
inflating: settings.xml
inflating: META-INF/manifest.xml
$
"Does anyone know of a good LinuxCAD program?"
I have seen set of 20 CDs containing ProE for linux. I would be really surprised to see some CAD/CAM/CAE software (ADAMS, ANSYS, IDEAS, Solidworks etc) not having cross platform support. I am doing a project with some company in India which provide mechanical CAD/CAE solution to Solidworks, ProE and Catia, and trust me they have developed custom UI and other toolkits which are truely platform independent.
Its only Office applications, due to vested interests of MS, that are not ported.
As a mechanical engineer, I have all I need on linux.
All I can say is that if I was MS, I'd
do it. Why not, after all? It's cheap,
effective and not in itself illegal.
I thought the same too, just that its a bit operationally "risky". Given the way MS does its work ( no idea about how these things happen in corporations in general, just picking ideas from "halloween's" ) they will prepare a memo on it, and for this to be effective, it wont be just circulated to the top brass, rather will be given away to almost everyone, esp the lower order. Sooner or later it will be leaked out, bringing a lot of undue reputation with little returns.