<p>People who chose to contribute to open source obviously want things to be more open and accessible. And if you take away the barriers they face, they *will* learn and use an open software or tool. </p><p>Hell, even after spending so much time fighting it, I still love KiCad, I love that it exists and I want to see it get better.</p><p>But if ThunderScope didn't become my full time job, I probably wouldn't have had the time or motivation to fight the tooling for weeks and switch the design over.</p>
