On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie> wrote: > > Maybe we should submit the kicad board file for acceptance as the > standard. ;) > > It’s actually not a bad idea. My board house takes Gerbers or Kicad, and > nothing else. > > Plus, it’s open source, which standards bodies like. (But even commercial > stuff *can* become a standard — I was part of the team that submitted PDF > to ISO.) > > Cheers, > Jeff. > > I have sat through some of these standards committee meetings and a lot of it is politics. Somebody from a big company has their pet idea that they can force it through even if its a lousy idea. A well run opensource development could probably do a better job.
John Eaton
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