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On 04/09/2014 10:07 PM, Britton Kerin wrote:
>>   Lots of pro PC designers can't program at all, and
>> >have no idea how circuits work.
> These folks aren't using gEDA anyway.

But, if the free tools were as simple to use as the usual
ones circuit layout folk use, we could hire them with the
same tools as we use to make open hardware.  That will
make lots of sense as more "from scratch" machine products
get crowdfunded.  Hobby isn't the only use for these tools.

Way back in 2004 Steve Meier started using gEDA for product development
and had to give it up the same year for lack of people to hire that
could use it.  When they needed to "go ahead and use the local talent",
that meant they had to drop gEDA tools and go with
generic ones the layout folk could be productive with.