On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 5:26 AM, cdb wrote: > According to the man at uChip, the Hitech offering is to be withdrawn > (apart from the 16F incarnation) only the uChip bannered offering will > exist, with a price change and all products will have the same licence. Not so sure about PICC18. It still has some following. > The licencing is proposed to follow the Hitech model. Pay an up front pri= ce > for the compiler, and then a yearly subscription price for continued > updates. =A0Whether bug fixes are considered an up date he didn't say. > Neither was he clear on whether the initial compiler price would decrease > slightly with the anticipation of extra revenue via the subscription > scheme. Now that is super bad. That is the worst thing to learn from HiTech. Hopefully this is not true. > The free versions will still exist but with no optimization. Again he > wasn't clear on whether this was no optimisation at all or similar to the > current offering. > --=20 Xiaofan --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .