What's the story?

[Roberto L. Landrau]

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Wouter de Waal wrote:

WW>I found a fairly nice (for shareware) shareware circuit
WW>drafting / PCB layout package called PADS. Sits on
WW>Simtel. PC based, sorry John :)
WW>
WW>Anyway, this thing has all the symbols, 68000, 8031,
WW>80x86, TTL, CMOS, etc. It seems easy to add to this as
WW>well. Outputs Gerber, Postscript, etc.
WW>
WW>So : Maybe this should become a semi-standard for
WW>capturing and distributing circuits. It's free, seems to
WW>work, has less annoying bits than WordPerfect (for what
WW>that's worth...) etc.

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I thought PADS was commercial, not Shareware...  What is the
deal here?  Is there a simple version of it available for a
"nominal fee"?