Re: gEDA-user: challenge from sci.electronics.cad

[Randall Nortman <geda-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 11:54:31AM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> Can someone reply affimatively to this, over in s.e.cad?
> 
> From: DMBPrescott@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: advice on selecting new PCB design package
> Newsgroups: sci.electronics.cad
> Date: 17 Mar 2006 07:25:48 -0800
> Organization: http://groups.google.com
> 
> Right......... gimmee the names of some well known companies using gEDA
> on serious, mission critcal projects????

I suppose that "well known" is a bit subjective -- the startup I'm
involved in is quite well known to myself and my associates.  The
projects I've used gEDA on are more than mission critical -- they are
business critical; i.e., if any of these projects were to go badly,
the company would pretty much immediately be out of business.  (Such
is life in a startup.  Second chances are rare.)  Despite this fact, I
never seriously considered using anything other than gEDA/pcb, and I
did not need more than a few sentences to justify the decision to my
co-founder.  In general, I always turn to the open-source solution
first, and only consider anything else if I cannot make that work.

Of course, we are not representative of the market.  But who cares
about "the market" anyway?