> Actually, what you said was ...  that all compilers, assemblers, 
> OS's and other such tools should all be free.

Verbatim

> " Personally, I think that compilers, assemblers,
> OS's and other such tools should all be freely
> available.  But guess that is just another in a
> long list of gripes.  :-)

There's a not so subtle difefrence between being freely available and 
"free" in the sense that nobody pays the developer. Zilog supply ANSIC 
with their extremely well priced developments kits . (There may be a 
good reason for this :-) ). BUT the developers get paid a per 
registered copy fee by Zilog. They are freely available and free to 
the user but not free from the developer.


        RM

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