The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> My eagle aint cloudified. Downloaded it 6 months ago

I should clarify: not 'cloudified' in the sense of Google Docs, but in the
sense of Adobe Creative Cloud.

In other words, it's a normal desktop app but you have to create an account
and login to make it work, and you pay a monthly subscription.  In Eagle's
case this mostly affects the pay-tiers (there's a free tier, but it's quite
restricted: 2 layers, 80cm2 of board).  Previously you paid a one-time fee
and gained perpetual access to the version that was current at time of
purchase.  It's unsurprising that users aren't happy.

Bottom line is, it's not worth the hassle of messing about with logins,
internet connections and subscriptions when equivalent packages are open
source.  If you want to do a really serious design (smartphone motherboard
kind of complexity) then Eagle is the wrong tool for the job anyway.

Theo

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