Re: gEDA-user: Professional PCB help using geda?

[Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@xxxxxxx>]

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DJ Delorie schrieb:
> As for 10-layer boards and high speed signals, I think anyone with
> enough experience to do that is already going to have a set of tools
> they'd be comfortable with, and it's hard to convince people to change
> - there's very little benefit to it.

gEDA is free. That's good for those that need a layout today that will
be used for decades to come. Maybe some part is no longer available in
20 years so the board has to be redesigned. There will be old schematics
and pcb designs, created using ancient software running on ancient
systems. With gEDA you just take the source and tell a programmer to
port it to a modern system. It's likely that something resembling a Unix
will still be around. You can't do that with non-free software. The
original tool vendor probably no longer exists, whoever has the rights
to the software will probably not port it to modern systems and neither
allow anyone else to do so.

Philipp
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