My vote goes to CoolPlayer too, an excellent little player. You can get it from here: http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/ It saved my bacon once, I needed a player on a NT 4 based dedicated audio logger, so no usb, no CD drive and no network. CoolPlayer was the only player I could find that would fit on a single floppy! Simple but effective, small and stable; if only more software was like that.
At first i thought this was a bit of a harsh analysis but after thinking about it for a minute i agree. I use free software for moral reasons and if something is not available then too bad, it gets put in the "you just can't do that" basket.
the software that is currently being used will let you design a board 3 by 4, that is a fair size in my books for something you are building yourself. If you are making money out of these boards then buy the software you want, it is called a business expense. If it is just your hobby then then you might want to buy it as well, a lot of people spend this much on hobbies. If you really don't want to spend the money then why not pick one of the other projects you mentioned and start helping them in any way you can then very nicely ask the developers if they could consider some of the features you want.
Free software is a lot more than getting stuff for free
Here is a quote from the man himself which is amazingly still relevant!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'
I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
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So the same as Photoshop versus the Gimp!
Using the classic theme! Ducks for cover and runs
Wow! Thanks for pointing that out, I missed that when it first came out. Now I'll have something to think about/investigate when i am at work today!
It is not anything like the one in Nausicaa Valley of the Wind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausicaa_of_the_Valle y_of_Wind_(movie) that was really cool and had a beautiful young girl flying it. Sigh, back to my Miyazaki inspired dreams.
My vote goes to CoolPlayer too, an excellent little player. You can get it from here: http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/ It saved my bacon once, I needed a player on a NT 4 based dedicated audio logger, so no usb, no CD drive and no network. CoolPlayer was the only player I could find that would fit on a single floppy! Simple but effective, small and stable; if only more software was like that.
At first i thought this was a bit of a harsh analysis but after thinking about it for a minute i agree. I use free software for moral reasons and if something is not available then too bad, it gets put in the "you just can't do that" basket.
the software that is currently being used will let you design a board 3 by 4, that is a fair size in my books for something you are building yourself. If you are making money out of these boards then buy the software you want, it is called a business expense. If it is just your hobby then then you might want to buy it as well, a lot of people spend this much on hobbies. If you really don't want to spend the money then why not pick one of the other projects you mentioned and start helping them in any way you can then very nicely ask the developers if they could consider some of the features you want.
Free software is a lot more than getting stuff for free
Here is a quote from the man himself which is amazingly still relevant!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'
I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)