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> Man, Altium looks nice. Wish they offered a free version
> for home use! 
> 

We use Altium and it has some great features, but also has the usual marketing-based problem of them adding more and more "headline" features that hardly anyone uses, while a lot of annoying bugs go unfixed. 
As a small 3-person company it's a big cost for us, but PCB cad makes up a lot of our business so it's worth it.

I can't see them doing a free version, they are currently going the other way by trying to lock all customers into a yearly payment.

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Tim Mitchell