KiCad price increase!!!

[JohnG]

Read it and weep

https://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/04/KiCads-Historic-Price-Increase-A-Leap-into-the-Future/

John

[SiliconWizard]

Happy April fool's!

[linux-works]

Obviously, inflation touches everything. Even software. While we used to write in 1s and 0s, these days, we are forced to develop KiCad using 2s and 3s instead. Note that this represents average inflation of over 200%. We are fortunate that the bean counters at KiCad corporate were able to maintain the overall price increase at just 50%!

if you are going to use 2's and 3's, I think there are more symbols that are available in some math system, somewhere.

sumerians used base 60.  lets try that for computers.  works well for telling time.

[DavidAlfa]

Omg, 200% increase of $0. So bad! 

[golden_labels]

That’s very unfair. They are forcing me to download two copies now! Otherwise I would have to pay half a zero, which is not possible. I demand a refund on all copies I downloaded so far.

[SiliconWizard]

Note, beyond the joke, how they take advantage of it to point the absurdity of many businesses coming up with actually the exact same kind of rationale to increase their prices by outrageous percentages.

[hpw]

Read it and weep

https://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/04/KiCads-Historic-Price-Increase-A-Leap-into-the-Future/

John

Beside of this joke... would rather subscribe with an amount, the charge back of a better SW with bug fixes as son as possible, currently moved to next releases  . In other words to get more professional workman's bounded to the project.

This means for me, a value cost something ..

[Doctorandus_P]

... would rather subscribe with an amount, the charge back of a better SW with bug fixes as son as possible, ...
This means for me, a value cost something ..

Commercial support for KiCad has been available for several years now via https://www.kipro-pcb.com/

[JohnG]

... would rather subscribe with an amount, the charge back of a better SW with bug fixes as son as possible, ...
This means for me, a value cost something ..

Commercial support for KiCad has been available for several years now via https://www.kipro-pcb.com/

My employer currently pays (a lot!) for multiple seats of a popular commercial PCB package. It generally works ok, and does have a few features that KiCad does not yet have. However, in our experience, that does not result in bugs fixed as soon as possible, or at all. In some cases, we are told they are not bugs. In fact, our customer experience has been for the most part very poor. It is clear that the primary goal is to extract more money, as our experience has been that in interacting with the vendor, much more time is spent playing shell games with licensing options than improving the software. In the meantime, improvements in the software have been incremental.

KiCad, on the other hand, shows a much higher rate of improvement over the last several years. Also, the cost of professional support is much lower than our current fully commercial PCB package.

John

[hpw]

... would rather subscribe with an amount, the charge back of a better SW with bug fixes as son as possible, ...
This means for me, a value cost something ..

Commercial support for KiCad has been available for several years now via https://www.kipro-pcb.com/

Yes, this sounds as the current wait to get rid of pittas.... currently there is a hug bunch to fix   

[bson]

Excellent!  But they really should have mimicked Altium correspondence...

[delfinom]

Excellent!  But they really should have mimicked Altium correspondence...

Gotta throwaway your dignity to go that low