Steve Johnson this morning makes very good arguments against porting AutoCAD to the Macintosh (at Why AutoCAD for Mac is a bad idea), but I disagree with him. Mr Johnson argues that Windows has its roots infecting (my word) too much of AutoCAD; in any case, Autodesk's $250 million worth of personal and other cuts should prevent it from spending the manpower and dollars on coding a Mac version. He summarizes, "Reversing or working around that [Windows->Mac] process is a very substantial undertaking." I disagree. Creating new CAD programs is trivial these days. Even one-man programmers do it, like the... Read more →
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