On 11/12/07, William Chops Westfield wrote: > > On Nov 11, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > > > What is the norm practise in the industry? > > Source costs extra, and/or is placed in escrow in case the > RTOS vendor goes belly-up. I see. It seems that the core of ThreadX (available for PIC32 and PIC24/dsPIC) is also in object file format. At least, the vendor should have a source code option at extra cost. > An OS is pretty useless unless it has enough source available > to be portable to slightly (or drastically) different environments. That is what I thought before. However some argue that a well defined API interface is good enough as in the forum and citing support as the issue for the vendor. However the customer should decide the term and not the vendor. That is what I think. > It MIGHT be possible to get away with this for a single target > processor, but... > I'm not sure people who buy an OS are interested > in the single-processor target. > Very good point. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist