[sdiy] PCB/Schematic software

[karl dalen]

But the point was North Korea PCB vs South Korea PCB software and the ideology used to write them. 

Example; never heard that Marx and Engels capitalistic value theorem are used in a engineering problem
like PCB/schematic software. Perhaps it could be a neat routine for auto-router algorithms since they
are fatalistically difficult to write good, well used to be anyway. 
KD


>The open source community develops the software that they need. The

>developers being users as well understand exactly what is required. This
>model works because it : 

>+ provides a community to support and train users
>+ users tell others in their profession and the word spreads
>+ users have the source code and can modify it their requirements 
>+ cuts out software piracy
>+ challenges the need for software patents

>I discovered Linux in 1995 and having been using it ever since. however
>I also use Apple Macs for music and web and MS Windows for music.There
>is a staggering amount of good quality free (as in free beer) software
>available for Linux and some of it like Inkscape (vector graphics- like
>Adobe Illustrator) Gnu Gimp (pixels - like Photoshop) and Open Office
>(like MS Office) run on all three of these platforms.

>http://inkscape.org/download/
>http://www.gimp.org/downloads
>http://download.openoffice.org/

Graheme