On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Darrel Johansen wrote:

> There is a possibility that Microchip could put some or all of the
> PICSTART 16B software into public domain.  Is there any interest
> in the subscribers of the PICLIST to this?

Are rhetorical questions necessary?

Which portions are you thinking about releasing? As you know, there's a
background task running right now on reverse engineering the picstart
protocol. I can't speak for everyone, but I know several people who like
to use their Picstart's under Linux. Releasing the Picstart code will just
make this happen faster (I presume...).

Scott