We are all hoping that 
, the voluntary donation rate was something like 0.1% of downloads. While the paywall is very unpopular, it is necessary if Fritzing is to survive. The way forward is thought to be paid professional developers, the code base is too complex for volunteers. I tried to restart development for about 3 years with 0 success. Lots of people arguing for a fork of the code base, but none willing or able to actually produce pull requests on the current code base, where the maintainers said they would merge valid pull requests, there just weren’t any. The paywall (and Aisler, whose CTO drove the push that got 0.9.4 released!) have produced (mostly invisible) updates to the web site, forum and build chain (all a huge amount of work!) and the 0.9.4 and 0.9.6 releases at a time when Fritzing was starting to die from outdated libraries.
Peter