Brandon Stewart wrote:
>
> It would be right along with Microchip's
> stated initiative to offer as many free development
> tools as possible.  This was there model.  Until they
> found out that they could make money on that too!
> Microchip did give out a free C compiler at one time,
> for a very short time.  I suggest that this is out of
> corporate greed.  And Yes, I was soliciting for
> everyones thoughts on the matter.

I suspect their are other reasons not to give out
free compiler tools. IDE's and macro assemblers require
comparatively a small amount of development cost and support.

How many PIC's do you have to sell to pay for the implementation
of a good C compiler? How much does it add to the cost of a PIC
to support a free C compiler. For reference, the MPC compiler
has 120,000 lines of source.

W..

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