Who is "you" in "you wrote" in the post below ?

Regards,
Jan-Erik.

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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Mike Harrison
> Sent: den 31 mars 2004 13:03
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [PIC]:Re: No help from Microchip for MPLAB Xwisp
> Integration :(
>
>
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:25:54 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >I might try again, yes. I think in this case it likely an
> NDA would cover
> >parts of the source code.
> >
> >The real thing that I need are IDL files for the interface
> specifications.
> >These would become a part of the source code, directly.
> >
> >I guess the only possible reason they can have for
> protecting this IP is to
> >help protect the business of selling programmers, both their
> and third party
> >ones.
>
> I don't think they are especially worried about programmer
> sales - Microchip are in the business of
> selling chips, and would probabaly welcome anything that
> contributes to this.
> Actually I think there may be another issue here, quality
> control. If they published the interfaces,
> any idiot could knock up some flaky hardware that could cause
> stability problems, leading to support
> calls etc. and a bad reputation for the system as a whole -
> by keeping tighter control, they can
> ensure that any add-on is done properly.
>
> As MPLAB is not open source, I can't see any major problem
> having the bit that interfaces your
> product to MPLAB not being open source - I'm sure it wouldn't
> be hard to isolate just the interface
> part in a seperate closed-source module.
>
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