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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com)
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> For those of us who are not as well versed in our history of this
> subject. I would like to know why so many common EDA formats have
> failed?

I don't see how the folks selling $100k EDA tools with a bunch of locked-in
customers would benefit from implementing them, and without them on board such
efforts are probably doomed.  Big outfits have large design silos that they
aren't going to throw out.  Who forced the mechanical design tool vendors
to support STEP?

Britton