I absolutely agree Chris. I was stunned and disgusted by the banality of the glib responses to the issue , especially from Solidworks. You should have seen their first release of press button FEA.
I am absolutely thrilled this issue is finally being widely aired.... its the only way change will come.
... ....I'll stop there.
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> On Sep 28, 2005, at 4:42 AM, Steve McKenzie wrote:
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> > I wondered why I don't hear so much mooing these days, but it has been
> > replaced with a fair amount of bleating.
> >
> > Now if only we can encourage the lawyers, accountants and
> > manager/bureaucrats to bugger off to the same place that the code
> > jockeys have run to, then this end of the world will be a better place
> > to live in.
> It may be a comfort to note that all the people who were interviewed
> for the article are marketing VP's or something of that ilk who
> probably know more about the far side of the moon than they do about
> engineering. These are the guys who invent phrases like 'Service pack'
> so they won't have to admit their software is buggy. People at that
> corporate level get hired only if they ask for more money, not less.
> Who else would say in one paragraph that IBM is moving 14000 jobs
> overseas and in the next say it isn't a zero-sum game?
> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
> chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
> .......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
> 1864)
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