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<div>As for open source, someone's bedroom project, major
development of KiCad is currently done by CERN. Hardly
some guy in a bedroom.</div>
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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.<br>
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)<br>
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.<br>
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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".<br>
And that's what I wanted to get at with the "someone's holy pet
project where you don't have a say".<br>
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