Let us be clear on this concept. The EDA market place is in the 4 to 5 billion dollar range per year.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175701340 You can do all the gorilla marketing that you want to end users who are tied to the dominant tool sets, but it won't do you any good. If you want to get these users to move to another tool set there has to be a migration path and an interoperability path. The issue isn't, is geda or kicad technologically competitive tools, the issue is can users move designs back and forth from the established eda tools and the free tools? If you answer yes then you reduce the risk of the users if you answer no then the safe action of the users is to stick with the tools that they know. Steve Meier _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
