Re: gEDA-user: Design Nark

[Josh Jordan <outerspaceman81@xxxxxxxxx>]

    We could spite them by implementing all of their features.
    --- On Tue, 7/19/11, Andy Fierman <andyfierman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

      From: Andy Fierman <andyfierman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Subject: gEDA-user: Design Nark
      To: "gEDA user mailing list" <geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 8:01 AM

    Is it just me being a Grumpy Old Man or does anyone else take issue
    with RS over their advertising for their Design Spark EDA tool?
    In particular the statement at the end of the last paragraph in:
    [1]http://www.designspark.com/content/designspark-pcb-version-2-takes-p
    cb-design-another-dimension
    that "With the release of DesignSpark PCB Version 2, RS has reaffirmed
    its commitment to delivering the best open source experience to its
    engineering community."
    To the best of my knowledge, no source code for Design Spark has been
    released.
    I have had conversations with people presenting Design Spark at RS
    sponsored events about making Design Spark open source and have been
    told categorically that they have no intention of releasing the source
    code.
    I suppose RS do only claim to be delivering whatever it is that they
    are delivering, "to its engineering community.", i.e. not to anyone
    else's.
    To a lesser extent I find the statement here:
    [2]http://www.designspark.com/theme/designspark-pcb
    that "DesignSpark PCB is the world's most powerful free of charge PCB
    design tool." a bit presumptuous too.
    Bah. Humbug!
             Andy.
    signality.co.uk
    _______________________________________________
    geda-user mailing list
    [3]geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    [4]http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

References

   1. http://www.designspark.com/content/designspark-pcb-version-2-takes-pcb-design-another-dimension
   2. http://www.designspark.com/theme/designspark-pcb
   3. file://localhost/mc/compose?to=geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   4. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user


_______________________________________________
geda-user mailing list
geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user