But for Sarah, tonight, it was just the tool she needed. No guilt. No limitations that mattered. Just a clean schematic and a waveform that told her she was right.
She clicked Yes.
But there was always that nagging awareness, like a watermark on paper. She couldn’t save designs with more than 50 nodes, even if she didn’t simulate them. She couldn’t export netlists for PCB layout. And the license, strictly speaking, forbade using it for “any commercial, professional, or for-profit purpose.”