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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:13:34 -0700
From: Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt AT recycle DOT lbl DOT gov>
To: "Gene Heskett (gheskett AT shentel DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: [geda-user] OT: support and CERN
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 09:01:41PM -0400, Gene Heskett (gheskett AT shentel DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On Thursday 14 April 2016 20:38:20 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > The keyword in the free software arena is "employ".
> > Apparently, kicad is one of these projects. Cite from the projects web
> > page:
> > ---------------------------8<-------------
> > CERN
> > Employer of Javier Serrano, Maciej Suminski and Tomasz Wlostowski who
> > all work heavily on KiCad.
> > --------------------------->8-------------
> That speaks well to the prospects of its being around in the future & bit 
> rot serviced as needed.

I know all of those people, and the project's web page has added
more than a little spin to the in-the-trenches reality.  Do _not_
consider any of those people anything close to full-time KiCad developers.
Supporters and contributors, sure.

That said, CERN has resources and has made institutional commitments
to support both KiCad and iverilog, as part of their larger efforts
promoting Open Hardware; ohwr.org was started by CERN.  A lot of this
has been driven by Javier Serrano, and I greatly respect him for that.

  - Larry