Re: schematics and PCB design software. what's best?

Robert Latest wrote:

Joerg wrote:


I don't think I can be locked out of my own docs when the only version I have and use is licensed by Cadsoft.


Yes you can, that's the crazy thing. If someone, at some time, copy-and pasted something into a schematic, board, or lib, and you copy stuff from those files into your stuff, going from version to version, all seems fine. But if any of the copies of Eagle used in the process was a cracked one and its serial number gets into CadSoft's database of cracked serials, some day an Eagle version may come along that won't open your documents any more. Each Eagle document seems to include a list of serial numbers of all copies of Eagle that it was opened with which even progresses through copy and pastes of partial files.

Even if you never received stuff from third parties and only work with legal copies of Eagle (like I do), you might some day be locked out of your docs when someone got hold of some discarded ancient install CD with your serial number and that copy got cracked.

It's not like the Eagle program can somehow detect that it has been cracked and put a marker into its files. All the program does is put its serial # into the files, and check the list of serial #'s in each file it opens against a compiled-list of cracked numbers.


Are you sure? That would be a rather sub-optimal way to combat hacking. But it is still unlikely to happen here because I do not discard any software carelessly.


Cadsoft's support goes way beyond that. Whenever I had issues, usually with netlist ports to other companies' CAD systems, I received a detailed response from a Cadsoft engineer in under 24 hours.


Same here.


To be fair, I have yet to see that level of support on other CAD software. Or any other software for that matter.

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