gEDA-user: Professional PCB help using geda?

[DJ Delorie]

> gEDA is free.

The code is free, learning to use it is *not* free.  It takes time and
effort, and in a consulting business, time is money.  If it takes you
ten hours to learn gEDA, you've lost ten hours of paid work time.

> That's good for those that need a layout today that will be used for
> decades to come.

I didn't say there was no benefit, just little.  That's a "net
benefit" measure, subtracting the costs from the gains.

Plus, one could argue that consultants don't want it to be easy to
modify in the future - that would take away from their potential
business.