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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] DJ Delorie interview about GEDA on EEVblog

From: DJ Delorie <dj@...>
Date: 2010-10-31

On 10/30/2010 08:42 PM, William Laakkonen wrote:
> You sounded great- thanks for letting me know I've pronounced ki-cad and
> g-eda wrong all these years.

Well, gEDA stands for "GPL'd EDA" so you get the "jee" sound, not the
"ghee" (as in GNU) sound.

As for Kicad, I've heard it pronounced kigh-cad and kee-cad, so don't
trust my judgement on that one.

> Lunix

It's spelled "Linux" or "Unix" but not both ;-)