Not so sure about getting long life product from well-known companies.  You
have the volume, you have the support.  And well known companies just need
much higher volume to justify that.

One thing that has been biting me is well-known companies intentionally plan
to obsolete their product, and plant in high-priced consumeable, and
intentionaly deceive and hide from the customers, so they will bite.  Else
who and what is feeding them and their publicity campaign to make them
well-known.  With quarterly profit reportings, moral and ethnics towards
cutsomers rank very low for rotating CEOs.

Yes, this is a willing buyers and willing sellers world. But it is not so
simple, unless the buyers are also equipped with the army of well-paid
professionals to uncover and study all the hidden costs and details planted
in by the sellers.  It is a one-sided game.

There are always exceptional. :-)

Time to do some refillings to my toners and catridges.

Ling SM

> I totally agree with what Jan-Eric said but the conclusion
> may not be the same. To be honest, EasyProg and Wisp628 are
> not "from the well known company XYZ". No offense here to
> Olin and Wouter. They are famous here and are very helpful
> and produce great programmers.
>
> It makes sense to develop a customized software in the
> corporate setup. Let us face it, who can guarantee that Olin
> and Wouter will continue update EasyProg/ProProg/Wisp628
> 5 or 10 year later?
>
> Even if the programmer comes from Microchip (Promate II/III),
> it may still require customization software due to special
> circumstances. Of course, it may require a lot of work
> depending on the original programming software. I would say
> it is a daunting task to try to port PicPrg from Olin, for
> example.

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