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Re: Pcbnew EAGLE plugin

Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo
 

Hi Dick,?





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2012/6/7 dickelbeck <dick@...>
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I am finished with the EAGLE_PLUGIN, and I am suspending my involvement with KiCad until my time can be funded.

This probably means goodbye, after 5 years and $310,000 donated by my employer, SoftPLC Corporation, to the project.


? ?Thanks a lot for the hard work and leadership you've been giving to KiCad, and the funding SoftPLC has been giving, at the end paying your time means funding.
It's a hard for any company, open source software development comes with ?a very blurry and long term ROI, when it does even exist.
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My suggestions to users of the project, is that you find a way to fund the work. And until that happens, be sure and give credit and thanks where it is due, not to some nebuluous "software dispenser in the sky" called "the developers". Name names, and understand that software is not free.


? ?A strategy for funding won't be bad at all for the project, may be willing and proven developers could offer a list of features they'd find interesting to
develop, including a price tag. Later we get the features voted, and then we put them on?? (or any equivalent platform) to get
them funded.
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Each of you are the recipient of a portion of SoftPLC's donation. There are only about 3 or 4 major financial backers of this project, and I dare say that SoftPLC corporation was number 2.

Probably we should be maintaining a list of donors in the new KiCad website, it's a way to pay something back to SoftPLC
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Additionally, I am starting a new company now:



which is going to sell quad-copters and drone technology. Naturally we will be all over the flight control software. Please please please watch the website over the next few weeks. And if you feel compelled to give back a little, buy something for yourself there, or your kid or grand-kids.


Woow!, nice!, I've built a quad copter once, they're spectacular, I wish you very good luck. Please tell us when the products are ready to take a look.
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I wish I could say that I enjoyed contributing, but to be candid, I was always a fish out of water. I am a capitalist, not a communist doner, so the fit was never right. And I am hell to work and with, because of very high expectations relative to software designs, so maybe this is a good thing for the other developers and maybe the project as a whole.


As you told me once, donating your time to an opensource project is like donating blood, if you do it too much, then you're dead.

We live on a capitalist world, and food won't come to our houses if we "code" for free. Even if we lived in a?communist?world, then we must be doing our assigned duties... and not coding what we wanted to. So money is necessary, and finding a strategy to fund this project would be of a big benefit to all the users. KiCad has a lot to offer to everyone.


Dick

Good luck :)
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Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo

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