Please let me know what I can do to support your development. I know of only one other open source project which is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/qscad/ Pure Tcl/Tk EDA Package. Schematic capture through to PCB layout. Has Part editor as well as editor for Schematic and PCB Decals. At some point in the future, I'm going to sponsor an adapter design contest for an SMD uP and one the requirements will be that the design use an open source tool. Let me know if I'm missing one. James Newton, PICList Admin #3 mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone http://www.piclist.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Milan Pavlica (YU7AEC) To: Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 13:19 Subject: Re: [OT]: The value of a donation wouter van ooijen & floortje hanneman wrote: > > Of course, that $70 is brutto - where is to pay taxes etc...how much i > have > > cashe lefted? > > I have some sympathy for your viewpoint, I would guess that this level of > cost-per-hour leaves you in a unique position to either > - write realy good software (using free tools), sell it for a very low > price, and put all those $$$-hungry companies out of business > - roam the internet to find and identify the realy good free software and > use that, never needing the $$$-companies SW (and make a good index page > about the SW you selected) > Yet this seldom seems to happen. Why? I haved same idea.. With one my friend, we start to develop PCB&SCH software which have looked like on ACCEL EDA, but with option "stoled" from Protel, OrCAD etc... We was at half of project, when on my comp, where was source codes, sudenlly, on my harddrive, i got some "nice" viruse, and BOOM - whole that partition for programin were blown... Then, was end of vacation, school start again, and we havent much time...but now, when i finish admission for faculty and get pass all those exams, i will be free from july to october, and we have again idea to write that software... And guess what - we dealed to that software to be FREE!!!!!! Free for download, and if u want it on CD with printed manual, a few $$ I think that on that way, there will be easier to do some PCB &SCH design... Hope that we will finish it...not only stay on idea... Milan > Wouter > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.