1. David L. Jones has a regular video blog, in one issue of which he reviews
    (and has some criticisms of  Pickit 3)

    http://www.eevblog.com/2009/10/21/eevblog-39-pickit-3-programmerdebugger-review/

2. He gets response from Microchip (Dave's words)

 > At it turns out, not surprisingly the video made it's way all around
 > the Microchip offices, even to the desk of their CEO.
 > As with any multi billion dollar corporation, I expected either
 > deathly silence or a nasty letter from their lawyers.
 >
 > But it turns out Microchip really do care about their products and
 > customers, and really do listen, so they seriously took it as
 > constructive criticism.
 >
 > So not only was my blog well received at Microchip, I got a lengthy
 > call from none other than the Microchip CEO Steve Sanghi, thanking me
 > for the blog and raising the issues. He pointed out a few factual
 > errors which was fair enough, but admitted they could have done the
 > PICkit 3 better and most importantly are working to fix the issues and
 > give customers what they expect.
 >

3. Microchip posts this funny video response on youtube.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YUvlrVlNao


That, folks, is how it is done!



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