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On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Ouabache Designworks (z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

>and searching it is impossible. Upverter is a commercial vendor so I
>understand that they do have to make a buck but Zak does bring up an
>interesting point. It is not open source vs commercial that we are dealing
>with. It is
>Big EDA vs everybody. We have to start talking with each other and come up
>with usable standards that do not lock us into big eda tools.
>

I support this idea. And again, if any well documented, reasonably 
designed open standard is made, I'd happily implemet importer/exporter in 
pcb-rnd. Or write an output to my pdf table extractor to that format.