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Subject: Re: SolidWorks is cool, sort of (but FreeCAD might be better)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 23:52 this Friday (GMT):
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:16:49 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 01:46:26 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:46:21 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>>
>>>> We use PADS. We've been using it since the DOS days when there was
>>>> basically nothing else.
>>>
>>> Seems like it’s still around, but it’s gone cloud-only.
>> 
>> Not for us. We purchased six copies outright.
>
> Would you entrust mission-critical business operations to obsolete, 
> unsupported software?


A lot of companies do, for one reason or another.
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