KiCad already has some corporate sponsorship, including CERN. I think this will help keep KiCad ahead of its open source competitors. https://www.kicad-pcb.or

KiCad already has some corporate sponsorship, including CERN. I think this will help keep KiCad ahead of its open source competitors. https://www.kicad-pcb.org/about/kicad/ https://www.kicad-pcb.org/about/kicad/ Edit: And to your latter point (and it is a reasonable one), the HackRF was done in KiCad. This demonstrates that something at that level of complexity can be done with open source tools and still make enough profit to be open hardware. Promising!!! https://kicad-pcb.org/made-with-kicad/hackrf/ https://kicad-pcb.org/made-with-kicad/hackrf/