EEVblog #121 - gEDA Interview with DJ Delorie

I caught up with DJ Delorie at the Renesas Devcon 2010 event and he was kind enough to sit down for 10 minutes and chat about the Open Source gEDA PCB/Schematic design package, of which he is one of the major developers.

What is gEDA?, where did it come from?, and what relevance does it have to the Open Hardware initiative?

[shinyless]

DJ Delorie was my hero when I was young. I probably wouldn't be the dev I am today without DJGPP. If there's a god, "god bless you", DJ Delorie.

[DJPhilTBCollins]

My favorite part - "How do you make your money? Volume!"
Thanks for taking the time guys, really good to get insight on gEDA.

[sluxi]

Heard this name so many times thanks to DJGPP back in the day, his work on DJGPP helped me and doubtless many others get into programming at a time where compilers were not free and open source operating systems were not that widely used yet.

What a great thing to be able see him in this video so I can connect the name to a person. Thank you DJ Delorie!

[arthurspilling]

DJ Delorie's DJGPP was the first C++ compiler I used over 15 years ago.

[philbx]

Thanks much again Dave for getting off the beaten track and into some 'free range' territory. I think it takes very special people to give some much of their time to projects they won't necessarily make money from.
I've punned a new term after watching this video and I hope DJ won't be offended at the BTTF movie reference, but I think sometime in the future we might have a term like "that's very Delorian of you..." :-)

[EEVblog]

@Fake00100 Yes, they aren't initials, his first name really is DJ

[mastermind]

i like to see the green stuff things being taken apart....

[Llirik]

Its now almost 1000 videos back to the future.
How time pass...