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On Sep 4, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Ivan Stankovic (pokemon AT fly DOT srk DOT fer DOT hr) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> We've been through all of this before, many times.
> Nothing is accomplished until someone actually does the coding.

There are two visions here. There’s the paternalistic idea that the developers will guide the users, and provide them with everything they need. From that point of view gEDA is stagnating. But there’s the idea (as with many excellent things like Python and LaTeX) that the core developers simply provide core capabilities, and users provide most of the end-use code. That’s alive and well, especially on gedasymbols.org.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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