Re: PCB CAD

info_at_bostonsemiconductor.com
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: 18 Dec 2004 05:27:05 -0800

I'd rather hear you make a compelling case for using closed source
tools.

I heard you the first 10 times when you said, "open source PCB sucks".

Now let's hear from you why close source PCB CAD is so great.

Chris

Don Prescott wrote:
> >Check out the Altera website. They have 14,000 (paying) customers
> and
> >made over $800 million last year. Or the Xilinx website. A swarthy
> >group of "mission critical" customers gave them 1.4 billion last
> year.
> >Each of them _ship_ cygwin and GCC as part of their development
flow.
> >Last I checked, those tools are open source.
>
> The theme is PCB CAD matey - YES, I know all about FPGA design
> tools... Altera and Xilinx's interest is in selling FPGAs NOT in
> selling tools. They give away the design tools so you buy their
> hardware. This wasn't what we were arguing about... Show me a well
> known company using open source PCB CAD tools on mainstream $$$$KKKK
> projects....not file servers! not FPGA! PCB CAD
>
> Prescott