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Submission + - CERN Open Sources Its KiCad Component Libraries

ewhac writes: CERN, a long-time Open Source pioneer, has made several contributions over the years to KiCad ("KEE-kad"), an Open Source EDA (Electronic Design Automation) package widely used in the hobbyist and professional electronics communities. It's gotten so widely used that users can now submit their KiCad design files directly to several electronics fabricators (rather than the traditional step of converting the layouts to Gerber files). Over the years, CERN have also developed their own symbol and footprint libraries to support their own internal electronic designs. Last week, CERN released those KiCad component libraries, containing over 17,000 symbols, under the CERN Open Hardware License (permissive version).

Comment Re: Nothing before late 2017 was impacted. LPE onl (Score 1) 66

9 years isnt a long time for anyone except kids. There are probably a shitload of embedded systems with kernels older than 9 years and probably some old phones and tablets still around too. Sure, for external facing systems you need to be up to date, but plenty of corps dont upgrade the firewalled backend servers for a long period because they Just Work and new kernel can mean new bugs and new failure scenarios not to mention app compatibility issues. See: Cobol.

So get off your high horse sonny and when you're out of short trousers maybe you'll understand.

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