According to the man at uChip, the Hitech offering is to be withdrawn=20
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exist, with a price change and all products will have the same licence.

The licencing is proposed to follow the Hitech model. Pay an up front price=
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updates.  Whether bug fixes are considered an up date he didn't say.=20
Neither was he clear on whether the initial compiler price would decrease=20
slightly with the anticipation of extra revenue via the subscription=20
scheme.

The free versions will still exist but with no optimisation. Again he=20
wasn't clear on whether this was no optimisation at all or similar to the=20
current offering.

Colin
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