Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

Alan

I see you on CADCAMEDMDRO and now I see you here... You get around!!

I think that Eagle and others should adopt a $per board strategy for
causal users like us. They could make a single board license file
that costs say $20 and gives you unlimited features for that single
board (locked to that PCB file on your PC). You go to the web site
and paypal $20 and they send you the license file good for one
board. The license file "dies" after you run your CAM process for
the 5th time on the board ( 4 tries to get it right). The license
file would also be suspended if you try and delete too many parts and
make another board from the design (cheating). You could then beg for
forgiveness and get a re-instatement.

With the internet it is easy for them to add the "spyware" needed to
insure the license file is not copied and used by someone else. Just
use the MAC or IP address of the machine as the "key".

IF they had this... I would already have spent $200 with them and not
have to think about moving to a competative package... they would
have sucked me in!!

DAve