KiCad price increase!!! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: JohnG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2024, 01:46:14 am
content: Read it and weephttps://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/04/KiCads-Historic-Price-Increase-A-Leap-into-the-Future/John

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2024, 02:30:35 am
content: Happy April fool's!

author: linux-works
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2024, 02:42:35 am
content: Quoteif you are going to use 2's and 3's, I think there are more symbols that are available in some math system, somewhere.sumerians used base 60. lets try that for computers. works well for telling time.

author: DavidAlfa
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2024, 03:19:17 am
content: Omg, 200% increase of $0. So bad!

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2024, 03:25:59 am
content: That’s very unfair. They are forcing me to download two copies now! Otherwise I would have to pay half a zero, which is not possible. I demand a refund on all copies I downloaded so far.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2024, 05:11:37 am
content: Note, beyond the joke, how they take advantage of it to point the absurdity of many businesses coming up with actually the exact same kind of rationale to increase their prices by outrageous percentages.

author: hpw
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2024, 06:26:49 pm
content: Quote from: JohnG on April 02, 2024, 01:46:14 amBeside of this joke... would rather subscribe with an amount, the charge back of a better SW with bug fixes as son as possible, currently moved to next releases. In other words to get more professional workman's bounded to the project.This means for me, a value cost something ..

author: Doctorandus_P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2024, 09:16:25 pm
content: Quote from: hpw on April 05, 2024, 06:26:49 pmCommercial support for KiCad has been available for several years now viahttps://www.kipro-pcb.com/

author: JohnG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2024, 03:12:47 pm
content: Quote from: Doctorandus_P on April 05, 2024, 09:16:25 pmMy employer currently pays (a lot!) for multiple seats of a popular commercial PCB package. It generally works ok, and does have a few features that KiCad does not yet have. However, in our experience, that does not result in bugs fixed as soon as possible, or at all. In some cases, we are told they are not bugs. In fact, our customer experience has been for the most part very poor. It is clear that the primary goal is to extract more money, as our experience has been that in interacting with the vendor, much more time is spent playing shell games with licensing options than improving the software. In the meantime, improvements in the software have been incremental.KiCad, on the other hand, shows a much higher rate of improvement over the last several years. Also, the cost of professional support is much lower than our current fully commercial PCB package.John

author: hpw
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 10, 2024, 05:26:02 pm
content: Quote from: Doctorandus_P on April 05, 2024, 09:16:25 pmYes, this sounds as the current wait to get rid of pittas.... currently there is a hug bunch to fix

author: bson
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 10, 2024, 08:38:04 pm
content: Excellent! But they really should have mimicked Altium correspondence...

author: delfinom
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 11, 2024, 02:32:28 pm
content: Quote from: bson on April 10, 2024, 08:38:04 pmGotta throwaway your dignity to go that low