Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

[John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

   Without a Windows port you will have a beginners interface (and
   documentation) but
   no beginners ;) I have talked to a lot of people at the Arduino Users
   Group and
   at dorkbot and the majority are Windows, a fair number on MAC and a few
   on Linux.
   Eagle has done excellent marketing. Seeding the university's with Eagle
   has enabled it to spread rapidly. Grassroots local support is available
   in a lot of
   areas.
   Below is my most recent response to "openness" that I posted on
   [1]http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_newrevolution
   (* jcl *)
   =============== Cut Here ===============
   "Open Hardware" comes in various degrees of openness.
   For example in the test equipment market top tier manufacturers like
   Hewlett Packard and LTX provide complete printed schematics, board
   layout drawings and a bill of materials. This design information
   enables the user to understand the equipment limitations and
   troubleshoot application issues. The printed manuals have a copyright
   but the design is open.
   Slightly more open would be a design that provides printed
   documentation along with the manufacturing data files. Although you
   won't be able to create new data files without the source files you
   can still manufacture identical copies.
   Having the source files enables modification of the original design
   without having to re-create the design files. But having the design
   files does not make the design completely open. Design files that
   require a $10K per seat EDA license are effectively closed.
   As an example of a completely open electronic design
   using the gEDA/PCB open source EDA tools I did a re-mix of the
   Drawdio design by ladyada. The ladyada design was a re-mix
   of a design done by Jay Silver (MIT Media Lab). The documentation
   and EDA files for my remix are at [2]http://tinyurl.com/bq8pq4
   Thanks to Jay for this fun and creative design. Thanks to ladyada for
   her excellent documentation.
   ===================== Cut Here ======================
   --
   You can't create open hardware with closed EDA tools.
   twitter: [3]http://twitter.com/jluciani
   blog:    [4]http://www.luciani.org

References

   1. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_newrevolution
   2. http://tinyurl.com/bq8pq4
   3. http://twitter.com/jluciani
   4. http://www.luciani.org/


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