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[โ€“] Maalus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, well. That's the issue with it quite often - without money you get programmers that are willing to work for free. Which more often than not makes them either push "their way" to do something due to elitism, or implement something unintuitively or straight up broken. The advantage of it is though - I don't have to pay thousands of euro for FreeCAD like I would for Solidworks. And if you work at a company that as a goal / values has "only free open source software" then you get what you get.

[โ€“] CADmonkey 1 points 1 year ago

without money you get programmers that are willing to work for free.

You sometimes also get programmers who have no idea how to make the product they're trying to make, which is I suspect one of the issues with Freecad.