> I would still recommend going through the exercise of attempting to 
> produce gerber files. 

First decide whether you will use a board house that accepts eagle .brd
directly. If it does, don't bother with gerbering.

> This way, you have more options on which pcb 
> houses to use, plus it becomes annoying for anyone attempting to copy 
> your files to create a similar board (relative to sending 
> them original files).

If I read this correctly you suspect Olimex of creating clones of your
boards? Nothing is impossible, but my experience with them has been the
opposite. I use Olimex for my Wisp628 PCBs. Some other guy tried to have
them make Wisp628 PCBs (same circuit, same name, different PCB design,
but the same name - which probably triggered them). They contacted me. I
sorted it out with the other guy. I conmsider this quite a service from
them.

Wouter van Ooijen

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