<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pleroma.m68k.church/users/gorplop" class="u-url mention">@<span>gorplop</span></a></span> my rather unpopular view on the matter is that I'm cool with people using literally anything to make open hardware as long as they publish the stuff I need to hack on the firmware, a schematic I can read without any specific software (please make PDFs or PNGs even if you're providing a KiCad doc!), and gerber files at a bare minimum. they can design the board in Cadence for all I care. if that makes me a borderline absolutist on freedom of choice in tooling then so be it.</p>
