Back in the early 90's was a fantastic CAD product for Mac's called Claris CAD. It was a really great 2D drafting product that was simple and easy to use.
As per wikipedia, it was officially canned back in '91. Now even Claris, the company, has changed to Filemaker Inc and only develops DB apps.
This was a wonderful app, and it worked very well on old/slow 68000 processors. My question is this: What would it take to a) get the code released to the open source community, and b) to get it ported to x86 linux OS?
I noticed the site ClarisLink that seems to have the application freely down loadable and they say that it would work on a Mac emulator called MinivMac. It's a start, but only when it's opensource, and runs on linux do I think this really great app will again be used heavily.
I have seen some other open source cad apps out there, and have played with QCAD which is not bad, but a bit clunky, and not very good for large DXF floor plan files.
NEWS FLASH: (Aug 2011)
I've found a open source product called CADEMIA which I think so far is the best option. Have a look. If you see something else out there, post to the comments section.
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