Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> I guess PM3 is too expensive for the Linux PIC developers to support.
> ;-( If one can donate a PM3 to some Linux PIC developers, perhaps it
> will be supported under Linux (by reverse engineering).

I have found that giving hardware to people on the promise that they will
add support for a particular operating system doesn't work.  People may have
the best intentions, but once they have the free hardware there will be
other things higher on their priority list.  They have no investment in the
product, so it's nothing to them if the they never get around to the
promised support.  I got burned by this on distributing several early
EasyProgs.  Various pieces of software were promised, but not a single one
ever materialized.  Of course they had no problem keeping the units (not
that I would want them back anyway).  In one case one of them broke, they
sent it to me, I fixed it and sent it back.  Actually this was useful and I
changed the design a little to make that failure less likely.

I wish there were a good answer to this.  I'd be willing to provide a free
ProProg or whatever in return for Linux support, but only if I knew
absolutely that I was getting the Linux support in return.


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