What is RS's criteria for most powerful PCB design tool? Personally, I am scared of having my designs locked down by a proprietary tool. What if DesignSpark is discontinued next year or RS decides to start charging $$$ for it? Will I be able to still access, edit, and manipulate my designs ten years from now, when all computers are 128-bit 64-core ARMv24 machines running Linux 3.0 and the new Windows 2022 is available only as a pay-by-the-hour cloud computing service with built-in pop-up ads? ... Maybe an extreme example, but really: what if DesignSpark was discontinued next year, and didn't support Windows 8?
A chilling vision of the future indeed! I fully share you concerns, Colin, which I think are quite reasonable. Free software is a better choice because it does not have a sole source of failure. Ed
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