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by cushychicken
2302 days ago
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It does indeed. Thanks for your reply. As an aside - one thing I find interesting is that Altium seems to be the premier SCH/PCB format supported by companies like yours. Guessing that's because Altium is a more open SW standard, and is used by more business of the size a company like yours would prefer to target. More succinctly: Altium seems like where the money is at. Do you have any theories as to why more companies don't choose KiCAD or other open tool in lieu of Altium? It seems to me there is a lot KiCAD can do, and there's very little Altium does that KiCAD does not. Do you choose to support KiCAD with the thought that the market will eventually move to free tools like that? |
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I have two things to say about this;
First to answer your question precisely, that wasn't my theory. We supported KiCAD because it is most popular in community. We figured this based on user surveys and feedbacks while being in private beta. Though KiCAD is my personal favorite tool for ECAD designs as it gives me freedom to code tools for myself with its programmable utilities (that wasn't the criteria for choice). They two main goals of InventHub are to empower open-hardware community and help small startups build hardware products fast so we see more innovative hardware products coming out everyday.
Yes I agree the money is at Altium as all big companies use it and we are definitely working on to add support for Altium because that will help us sustain so we can empower the open-hardware community.
Second thing: My personal theory is that world is a better place when we work together. I truly believe in community and DIY GEEKS or InventHub both were started on the idea to build and empower the community. I have a hope that open source will be commercially viable soon and will get bigger than enterprises(Just the things I keep on thinking about: how will we moderate the infrastructure for security) - Well I can keep on talking about this, but I guess its a conversation for another thread.