On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Sean Breheny wrote: > Hi Mike, > > That is pretty much my observation, =A0too. However, I think it is > short-sighted. If a large customer is going to buy 100K parts per year > from you, do you really care about that extra $1000 USD? I guess they > are trying to offset their software development costs by charging for > the full version of the compiler (which, I agree, is typical in this > industry), but I would think that it would generate a LOT of good will > among microcontroller users if Microchip gave away a full-featured, > free compiler for their parts. You have to be careful here. Doing that will irritate 3rd party compiler vendors. So what Microchip has done with C18/C30/C32 is quite good. On the other hand, ARM and 8051 MCU vendors normally leave the compiler stuff for the compiler vendors. Yet they are still doing fine. US$1000 is not a lot if your project cost a lot more. Actually Keil and IAR typically cost more than US$1000. -- = Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist