Re: gEDA-user: Another free schematic/PCB tool

[Andy Fierman <andyfierman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gareth,

I understand the connection between RS and the tool and hence why the
article reads like an advert.

My point is that precisely because it is written by the supplier, the
article gives very little useful information about Design Spark PCB or
other genuinely FOSS tools that it is actually in competition with.
Sure FOSS tools are mentioned but without even a link to give the
reader a starting point for a comparison.

It is great to see free, unlimited, unclobbered tools being made
available but the people behind Design Spark have missed the point of
the open source philosophy.

Someone* on this list has a tagline along the lines of: "You can't
design open hardware using closed source tools".

         Andy.

www.signality.co.uk

* Sorry, I can't remember who.



On 4 February 2011 09:54, Gareth Edwards <gareth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4 February 2011 09:28, Andy Fierman <andyfierman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Sorry if I seem a bit scathing but it seems less an interesting
>> article, more a very wordy advert.
>
> It's a house mag, I wouldn't expect any different. My company does one
> too. If you pay for publishing it, you get to decide what goes in it.
>
>>
>> And I'm struggling with the "Open Source" part of the title.
>>
>> Free, yes. FOSS; no.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Gareth
>
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