We could spite them by implementing all of their features. --- On Tue, 7/19/11, Andy Fierman <andyfier...@signality.co.uk> wrote:
From: Andy Fierman <andyfier...@signality.co.uk> Subject: gEDA-user: Design Nark To: "gEDA user mailing list" <geda-user@moria.seul.org> Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 8:01 AM Is it just me being a Grumpy Old Man or does anyone else take issue with RS over their advertising for their Design Spark EDA tool? In particular the statement at the end of the last paragraph in: [1]http://www.designspark.com/content/designspark-pcb-version-2-takes-p cb-design-another-dimension that "With the release of DesignSpark PCB Version 2, RS has reaffirmed its commitment to delivering the best open source experience to its engineering community." To the best of my knowledge, no source code for Design Spark has been released. I have had conversations with people presenting Design Spark at RS sponsored events about making Design Spark open source and have been told categorically that they have no intention of releasing the source code. I suppose RS do only claim to be delivering whatever it is that they are delivering, "to its engineering community.", i.e. not to anyone else's. To a lesser extent I find the statement here: [2]http://www.designspark.com/theme/designspark-pcb that "DesignSpark PCB is the world's most powerful free of charge PCB design tool." a bit presumptuous too. Bah. Humbug! Andy. signality.co.uk _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [3]geda-user@moria.seul.org [4]http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user References 1. http://www.designspark.com/content/designspark-pcb-version-2-takes-pcb-design-another-dimension 2. http://www.designspark.com/theme/designspark-pcb 3. file://localhost/mc/compose?to=geda-user@moria.seul.org 4. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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