On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:36:29AM -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> 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.

Olin is absolutely right. I am the guilty party in this story. I wanted 
(and still do want) a cross platform programmer for EasyProg. I did promise
to generate something in Python upon delivery. And I have not done so. 

As Olin has correctly surmised, I've just been swamped with more pressing 
issues.

If anyone is interested in taking up the task, I will deliver the EasyProg
prototype to you on my dime. Even though I don't have time to tackle the
problem right now, I would still like to see crossplatform support for it.

BAJ
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