PCB CAD

[Don Prescott]

Hi Tim

Re:

I know of one aerospace company currently developing their next range
of >boards using FreePCB. They key for them is that they can get the

source, the >fact that it is also free is immaterial, though naturally
they are delighted >it's free, if a little incredulous. Now that their
eyes have been opened to >open-source, a snowball effect is in motion,
they are very keen to get hold >of open-source DSP software.

I suspect that at the current moment in time there are very few
companies >using open source PCB layout tools, though as in so many

other areas of >development,there is an inexorable drift toward
open-source software: it's >the source that counts.


Oh yes...... "you know an Aerospace company that uses open source PCB
CAD" do you..?

This has the hallmarks of an urban myth. The term "Aerospace company"
conjures images of maybe Boeing, Grumman, or perhaps Lockheed... and
in the next retelling it will become one of these organisations..

OK what Aerospace company..??

Prescott