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That was my thought too, seeing open source and altium in the same submission is just jarring.

This is the second time I've seen an altium post here in about a week, I wonder if they've hired an intern to do "community outreach"? I can't see it working with their lack of "hobbyist" support tbh.

Came here to say this too. KiCAD has come a LONG way in the last couple years. It’s suitable for professional work and a no brainer for open source hardware.

Who is going to drop $4k/year for an Altium license to contribute to your open source project?!

Or it needs to be done in Horizon EDA.

Yes, it feels wrong. I guess that Altium is paying him to do the work which is a cool gig, anyway. Hopefully the design files can be converted or manually ported for use with FOSS.

tbf there is maybe no open source competitor good enough