LibreDWG
Week recap — 4 February 2019
by Alexandre ProkoudineIntel publishes open source projects for AV1 encoding and image denoising
Week recap — 23 December 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineManuel Bastioni Lab add-on for Blender gets a community fork
Week recap — 16 December 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineBlender's video sequencer gets a new maintainer
Week recap — 9 December 2018
by Alexandre ProkoudineNVidia publishes PhysX SDK physics engine as an open source project
LibreDWG revived, starts getting regular releases
by Alexandre ProkoudineIn an unimaginable turn of events, LibreDWG, the free/libre library for opening proprietary CAD files in the DWG file format, is becoming a stellar example of a FOSS project.
LibreDWG drama: the end or the new beginning?
by Alexandre ProkoudineThere's a can of worms we opened this year: the unfortunate situation with support for DWG files in free CAD software via LibreDWG. We feel, by now it ought to be closed. We have the final answer from FSF.
LibreDWG controversy: 2 months later
by Alexandre ProkoudineIn late January we posted an in-depth story that explained the lack of support for DWG files in free/open source CAD software. Now it's time for an update.
What’s up with DWG adoption in free software?
by Alexandre ProkoudineHaving been asked recently about reasons for lack of DWG support in free software, we started digging and very nearly fell into a pitch black abyss.