Wow, that announcement is stunningly unexpected!

I would have never thought you would consider
that, but yes I agree, what we were considering
was definitely a compromise.

My company will cheerfully pay PCBL for those
tools (we buy anything we can justify),
but I thought it was a cool idea to have a free
online tool that makes some sense out of 7351.

So if you are willing to publish a stripped down
online version, I'm sure the volunteers can find
other things to do, like hassle ThermalMan for a
simple freeware IPC-2152 trace width calculator
(grin)

think about it, hope to see it online by Monday!

(thanks, mon)

Jack






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<snip>

Anyhow, based on interest by some to use the calculator from non-Windows
platforms and the discussions started here some time ago, over the past
couple weeks we explored options for transferring the 'basic' 7351 LP
Calculator functions online - yes, for free. Even the basic functions of
the
7351 would still be a nice upgrade from the previous 782 tool. We will of
course, offer additional features for those who choose to get the licensed
version.

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