[sdiy] Pulsonix PCB design software

[sleepy_dog at gmx.de]

Pete Hartman wrote:

> As for open source, someone's bedroom project, major development of 
> KiCad is currently done by CERN.  Hardly some guy in a bedroom.

But that wasn't where it started, was it? I faintly remember some news 
that CERN started to support it at some point. Could be bad memory.
So they started with something weird, and added weird physicist thinking 
to it, huh? If they think like an old buddy, that explains some things 
;-) (they probably have dedicated devs, but that thought was fun)
Well, that probably means there will be some steam behind it for the 
time being and push things forward. At least that happened before to 
other OSS projects some bigger weights had taken interest in.

But still, they probably mainly develop it further for their needs & 
preferences, less so for a more general target group, I guess.  To make 
it available for a larger group may be an added bonus, but not exactly 
the top priority, i.e., they'r not exactly "targeted".
And that's what I wanted to get at with the "someone's holy pet project 
where you don't have a say".

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