The purpose to forming the IntelliCAD Technical Consortium a decade ago was to have member companies work together to improve the code through shared bug fixes and feature improvements.
The improvement pace was too slow for one member, Bricsys, and at first the Belgium-based company donated large amounts of new code. But that didn't help sufficiently, and Bricsys got so frustrated they (a) rewrote all of Bricscad from scratch and (b) last month left the ITC.
Today, Bricscad and the Open Design Alliance are forming their own mini version of the ITC:
The improvement pace was too slow for one member, Bricsys, and at first the Belgium-based company donated large amounts of new code. But that didn't help sufficiently, and Bricsys got so frustrated they (a) rewrote all of Bricscad from scratch and (b) last month left the ITC.
Today, Bricscad and the Open Design Alliance are forming their own mini version of the ITC:
Development teams from both companies are working together to incorporate modifications made to the ODA platform code by Bricsys back to the ODA, with modifications to be included in the base code delivered by the ODA to its member companies.I can see the benefit to the ODA, but what does Bricsys get out of it? Bricsys ceo Erik de Keyser rests on this hope...
We hope our initiative will be followed by other members too.Source.
"but what does Bricsys get out of it?"
Bricsys gets to stop wasting their time and energy patching the ODA code every time they decide to use a new version of DWGdirect.
Posted by: Account Deleted | Mar 08, 2010 at 07:33 AM