> Look guys, bottom line, I'm having a real hard time understanding why
> everyone is defending a multi-billion dollar behemoth, who not only was
> aware that their chip architecture was fundamentally flawed more than 24
> months ago, but made a business deicision to delay the fix solely for
> dollars sake,

Um, that's what they're supposed to do.  They're running a business, not a
charity.

> paying no heed whatsoever to the fact that their very
> customers are put a severe risk of code copying.  Quite frankly, they did
> not give a sh*!*t.

Companies make decisions all the time not to address particular markets.  No
one product is going to satisfy all customers.  OK, so Microchip produced a
part that doesn't fit your needs.  The F877 does fit a lot of other people's
needs, so it looks like they got it right.  It's not their fault that you
screwed up and are trying to use it in a way it was not designed to support.
To follow this logic, you should be just as irate at all the other companies
that make all the other products that also don't fit your needs.

By the way, I thought your subject implying that only you should get the
last word was rather pretentious and arrogant.  I've taken the liberty of
changing it to more accurately reflect the content.


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Olin Lathrop, embedded systems consultant in Littleton Massachusetts
(978) 742-9014, olin@embedinc.com, http://www.embedinc.com

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