[TriEmbed] Eagle now subscription-only

[Jesse Griggs]

Hi John,

This has been a very interesting journey.  Your response has been a common one.  I find it interesting that people often assume that my intentions are to cheat software developers out of making money for their blood, sweat, and tears - I know you're not directly implying this, but I want to make clear that’s not my intention. I fully support a maintenance release based model where I have to pay for significant software releases so long as the license is perpetual.  I do understand that software developers are entitled to change their licensing but I whole hardly disagree with a third-party controlled gate that can cut me off from something I purchased.

I appreciate your thoughtful reply and I look forward to meeting you in person. I’m much more interesting and less annoying than my emails may imply in person.  :-)

Forever an internal optimist… just kidding… the glass is never half full, it’s simply twice as large as it needs to be.

Jesse Griggs
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On Jan 20, 2017, at 1:36 PM, John Vaughters via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org<mailto:triembed at triembed.org>> wrote:

Jessie,

Not trying to discourage your effort, but I do want to point out that it is quite common to change licensing and those that put the effort into the software certainly have the right to try and reap rewards for their efforts. I think it's great that Eagle has given us such a great tool. I do not think they ever had any other intentions than to create a class of user willing to pay in the future and I am quite sure they have accomplished their task. The open source world is one where many will switch when projects go dark. It often times motivates the alternatives to increase their users and therefore improve their products.

It will probably break like this. If you make money on eagle, you pay the price and move on. If you make enough money that Eagle is not worth your time, you pay the price and move on. If you have the time but not the money, you just move on.

My 2 cents worth half a pence on a good day.

John Vaughters


On Friday, January 20, 2017 12:33 PM, Brian via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org<mailto:triembed at triembed.org>> wrote:


On 01/20/2017 12:01 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote:
Where I sit this moment I'm expecting to
> buckle down and get past a lot more of the KiCad learning curve while
> coughing up $100 for Autodesk for the next year.
>

Don't cough up for Eagle.  If you keep Eagle around, you'll be tempted
to just use it each time you run into a hiccup with KiCAD.  Just grit
your teeth and plow through the KiCAD curve.

Maybe my boards are simpler than yours, but I've always had much better
luck (and been much more pleased with the results) routing entirely by
hand.  Maybe that's just a matter of me not knowing how to set up the
autorouter to get the best results.

Anyhoo, I made the switch to KiCAD a year or two ago, when I developed
some designs that simply could not be routed effectively in two layers.
  The scramble up the KiCAD learning curve was painful, but now that
I've got my head around it, I haven't looked back.  Plus I can sell my
work if I want to, and I've already done some tinkering with the KiCAD
source to add RDBMS component and footprint libraries.

Go get 'em!

-B



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