On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Andy Fierman <[1]andyfier...@signality.co.uk> wrote:
> What is mfgs? Manufacturers? (Not sure why they'd be bothered to contribute symbols anyway. They do very few for commercial packages.) Andy. [2]signality.co.uk mfgs = manufacturers For the same reason they produce app notes, development environments, large code snippets and in some cases, good size programs, give out engineering samples, etc. So that people buy and use their products. Supporting a commercial EDA tool vendor with component files could be seen as a bias, and more importantly, has the perception of helping the commercial tool vendor more than itself. They would be contributing resources to help someone elses economic gains. This model has been adopted by many PC board mfg, in that many of them provide Linux drivers. -J References 1. mailto:andyfier...@signality.co.uk 2. http://signality.co.uk/
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