Interesting! I'm a KiCAD user but have never heard of this. Why doesn't Urban just contribute to KiCAD instead of maintaining a separate open source project?
Apologies if he mentions it in the video -- I'm at work.
>> Why doesn't Urban just contribute to KiCAD instead of maintaining a separate open source project?
Not every open source project is built the way a person thinks it should be. The only way to know if an alternate viewpoint is better is to build it and find out. Other times a person just wants to build it for themselves for their own reasons. Either way, variety can be a good thing. One day an alternative may just replace your favorite piece of software and then you might ask why the creator started from so far behind all those years ago...
There are probably as many reasons as there are developers.
Do you know anything about this project or is this just a generic diatribe?
I was hoping to hear about his opinions of the shortcomings of KiCAD and where LibrePCB improves on them. It would certainly help someone like me decide whether to fund him on Patreon or not, seeing as I've donated to CERN for KiCAD development.
Apologies if he mentions it in the video -- I'm at work.