Tisk Tisk - Altium moving to China!

[Richard Crowley]

I wouldn't use a package that is written by and relies on one person, and is not open source.

Why?

For the obvious reason: it is too vulnerable and dependent on one person. If anything ever happens to that one person, the product is toast, and all your investment in designs is in jeopardy.

[nixfu]

*chough* *cough* *sneeze*

Holy cow, who got this dusty old thread off the shelf?

[Zman]

should be renamed to 'Altium moves to California!'

[EEVblog]

I wouldn't use a package that is written by and relies on one person, and is not open source.

Why?

For the obvious reason: it is too vulnerable and dependent on one person. If anything ever happens to that one person, the product is toast, and all your investment in designs is in jeopardy.

Exactly that.
Sorry Iliya, as much as I am in awe of you ability to create such a product yourself, that's just a cold hard reality for most people including myself.
At least something KiCAD has the backing of many developers and CERN.
Choosing a PCB package requires a lot of time, effort, and commitment, and it is the main tool a design engineer uses. To trust that all to a single developer is a tough ask of anyone.

[c4757p]

Bus factor.

[EEVblog]

Bus factor.

That's a very real concern in a lot of companies. They will have policy in place that actually says certain people (or numbers of) can't fly on the same plane etc.