pic microcontroller discussion list wrote:
> Amaury Jacquot wrote:
>> maybe it would be time for our friends at microchip to come to their
>> senses and make this thing opensource, so that we can help them debug
>> the thing faster, port to uncountables unices, gnome, kde and the
>> like...
>
> MPLAB is already "free".
> And I realy can't see what good it would do to have the whole
> word of happy hackers digging around in the internals of MPLAB...

But can it do any _harm_?  I haven't looked at MPLAB recently, but last
time I used it, it didn't do anything particularly special which would have
taken a trade secret to implement.  From comments here, it does seem more
buggy than the open source alternatives, and I'm sure it's hard for
microchip to justify spending lots of programmer-hours to fix it when it
doesn't directly generate revenue.

Then again, I could say much the same about Windows :-)

Nigel
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