XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:15:07 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 11:10:01 -0700, john larkin wrote:   
   >   
   >> I inherited a hammer from my grandfather. It pounds nails just fine.   
   >   
   >Hammer-and-nail technology hasn’t changed appreciably in, since before   
   >your grandfather was born.   
   >   
   >Electronics is a slightly different matter.   
   >   
   >Do you consider your software tools to be a strategic asset, or just an   
   >unavoidable expense?   
      
   PCB layout software is common and pretty much the same, so is hardly   
   strategic. Cost is minor too.   
      
   Our functions and circuits are strategic. And some of our Spice   
   models.   
      
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