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