AVR-Chat

Cobb, Quentin wrote:
> So if your local pub gives away free beer one night, it's not really free
> unless they continue to give it away forever?

Once beer is digested, it has no need for maintenance, bug fixes, and
upgrades for new devices;)

> I agree that it's not free in the "unfettered, unconstrained" meaning of
> open source but  it is free in the normal no-charge meaning. 
> 
> It's only a hook if you try it and it's too good to give it up!

Quite so. If you're forced to give it up because it becomes
non-free, its quite irritating and you avoid those mistakes
in future, unless the code isn't difficult to port to another
compiler. Also, all the time invested in learning its quirks
such as embedding assembler and handling custom io functions
will be wasted if you ever discontinue using it.

  > -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Shaw <rjshaw@netspace.net.au>
> To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wed Jun 16 09:49:57 2004
> Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] IAR free trial version
> 
> Cobb, Quentin wrote:
> 
>>I am t an Atmel seminar today an d just learned that IAR now has a free
>>eval version. 
>>
>>IAR make the *the* high-end AVR C compiler (normally mucho $). The eval
>>version is limited to 4kb but otherwise has no restrictions & no time
>>limit.
> 
>>Gotta love free software
> 
> 
> But that just aint free....