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by pwr-electronics 1652 days ago
I see how you read that completely differently than how I meant it. I apologize, and thank you for pointing that out.

I meant to convey that creating a free software tool specifically to support a hardware catalog has precedent, makes business sense, and is useful to customers. Not everything has to conform to the FOSS die-hard ethos to upstream everything.