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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Freerouting?
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On 05/19/2016 10:22 PM, al davis wrote:
>>> AFAICT, the freerouting web app ceased to exist thanks to Big EDA
>>> bullying the developer into retirement and off the internet
>>> (http://www.freerouting.net/).
>>
>>   Damn suits.
> 
> The issue as I understand it is that the developer used to work for
> Zuken.
> 
> Zuken's claim is that Freerouting contains stolen code, or at least
> stolen concepts, that are proprietary to Zuken.
> 
> "Big EDA" here really means "his former employer".

  Eeeewww, sticky situation.

  Well, the code is out there now, replicated in a thousand
places...this particular genie is very much out of the bottle.

                -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA