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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 06:01:30PM +0200, timofonic timofonic wrote:
> I see.
> 
> What about IPC-2581? Is really open? Do PCB manufacturers support it?

IPC specs are usually open as in 'buy the paper and then you can
implement it'; no consortium, no mandatory fee/royalties/whatever.

As in manufacturers support, my experience is that manufacturers just
supports gerbers/excellon and maybe one or two CAD packages they have
available (usually OrCAD and/or PADS); OTOH since it seems that *all* of
them are using genesis 2000 (at least here in italy), they could support
OBD++ (but maybe that's an additional license in genesis to buy!)

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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