I swear to fucking God many of the executives of the legacy manufacturers and retailers need to be shot. I'm trying to migrate my designs from Multisim now that I am liberated from hell (I graduated) to a FOSS. Unfortunately, I still keep encountering the problem of not being able to easily add new parts. Right now, I am trying to add shit to KiCAD.
I found someone online asking for a unified way to add parts to KiCAD (symbols, simulation model, 3D model, cost characteristics) and connect this to internet distributors.
Everyone replies by saying this isn't possible. You know why? Cause we don't have communism (yes, one of the replies literally starts talking about how communism doesn't work, but also open source is communism and open source is still cool). The parts vendors literally encrypt their models so that you can only download and simulate them if you pay for the keys. The online interfaces for searching parts want their subscription fees and try to sabotage free services.
And like, I get that some features cannot be implemented in a super convenient way for legitimate reasons (don't want to lock people into a single vendor, so there can't be a unified library). But dawgs, this industry is so cooked 
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