I bought a book on Eagle to learn, but I switched to DipTrace when I realized how much Eagle would cost to make boards that would hold 8, Z568 tubes. Initial cost and upgrades are very reasonable.
On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 9:21:24 AM UTC-4, Nick wrote: > > As all Eagle users will know, Eagle was acquired from Premier Farnell at > the start of the year and Eagle 8, the new version, has a completely > different licensing model - it's now subscription based, starting at USD > 15/pcm for the "standard" version and going up to USD 65/pcm for the > "professional" ones. > > I'm a long-time Eagle user, probably for more than 15 years, so have a lot > invested in it in terms of libraries and existing designs. > > However, I can stake USD 100/pa (the annual up-front cost of the USD > 15/pcm option). but you need to be connected to the internet every couple > of weeks for your Eagle license to stay active. If it expires, I'm told > that you can still generate Gerbers from your old designs and even export > in the old V7 format using the free version - our old licenses and software > will keep working. > > What have Eagle folk here done about this - just wondering... It annoys me > slightly, but I guess the previous licensing model was not paying the bills > and Autocad are promising great things... > > Thoughts? > > Nick > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/14ca7f14-aec3-46b2-99cb-fc48a81f846f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
