It was a pleasure using it. I wanted to switch from Fusion to Ondsel and tried to learn it as an alternative.

Did you use Ondsel?

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    Until just now I had never heard of this team and their contribution to FreeCAD. Reading the article I think it outlines what they did and it sounds excellent.

    As far as their success or failure of achieving their aims, I don’t have any information to make a judgement either way.

    I will say that making a business out of open source software is not something for the faint of heart and not something that has a track record of success, let alone a documented one. Mostly it seems to follow the pattern: “How do you make a small fortune from open source?” “Start with a large fortune.”

    I say this as a quarter century user, developer and advocate of open source solutions.