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From: Branko<brankob@a...>
Date: Thu May 13 00:35:23 CEST 2004
Subject: [oc] One issue about free hardware
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erez Birenzwig" <erez_birenzwig@y...>
> To conclude, I think that open source EDA tools is nice, but in reality
most
> of the participant in this list, are either working for EDA companey,
> electronics engineers or students, for good EDA tools that can compete
with
> commercial ones, you need a lot of know-how, and a good background. It's
> a lot harder to design and write then a new window manager or a new shell
for
> windows. The problems are at a different scale, and most of the code is
> propriatry and not accessible. This makes the task very hard and you need
very
> dedicated people to do that, espacially because the community is not as
large.
>
> Erez.
I agree with this 100.00%, but I was kind of cowardly waiting for this to
come out of someone else's mouth.
Besides that, I think there is smallish problem with patent issues. Whoever
writes the program will have to deal with many tricky issues which have
probably patented to death already (autoplacer and autorouter within pcb
editor come to mind as most obvious example, not to mention FPGA,CPLD etc
tools), so who is going to use some high quality algorithms of his own and
then publish them with source and everything else as a free software ?
Sounds as a job application for being a jewish practice target in
Fallujah...
Just my two centieuros,
Branko
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