Lpc2000

Hi Paul

I think your free licences requests will explode after this email ;-)
I am also thinking to take heart to send one.

Cheers
Michael

>From: "Paul Curtis" <plc@...>
>Reply-To: lpc2000@yahoogroups.com
>To: <lpc2000@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: RE: [lpc2000] Re: Problems with olimex (wiggler) jtag and olimex 
>lpc2129 proto board
>Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:31:52 -0000
>
>This is the sort of feedback that is useful.  I think we've been very
>good in providing free licenses and (in some cases) hardware to many
>users for their use--but we don't shout about it.  I may actually put a
>page up on the website with the more interesting projects we have
>supported, but we have sent more keys to "intense hobbyists" that have
>the front to contact us directly.  I'm getting soft... :-)
>
>I *know* that I'd like to do something for hobbyists, but I'm really
>unsure as to what the impression would be.  The current company policy
>is to offer what *I* would like to see from a company if I used its
>tools.  That is, we fix bugs free of charge because we made the mistake,
>and we offer e-mail support that isn't limited because if users have
>problems then it's a documentation issue or should be covered by a FAQ.
>
>In the three years that we've been selling CrossWorks for MSP430, our
>original users have never needed to pay for an upgrade.  However, I can
>say now, that when v2 ships, there *will* be a small cost associated
>with it because it's a major upgrade in function.
>
>Sorry, I'm rambling.
>
>--
>Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd  http://www.rowley.co.uk
>CrossWorks for MSP430, ARM, AVR and now MAXQ processors
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: compuguru64 [mailto:karim@...]
> > Sent: 25 November 2005 00:24
> > To: lpc2000@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [lpc2000] Re: Problems with olimex (wiggler) jtag
> > and olimex lpc2129 proto board
> >
> > I can only speak for myself.  I'm a professional programmer of
> > vertical business applications.  I also consider myself a perpetual
> > student.  My hobby is robotics and I take it seriously.  I consider
> > the hobby to be preparation for an alternate career path.  If
> > personal robotics ever takes off enough and can support more people
> > in the field, then I would be happy to make a career move.  At that
> > point I would be happy to pay for the professional tools needed.  In
> > the meantime I'm always a student, even if I'm only sporadically
> > taking courses at community college to refresh atrophied skills like
> > linear algebra (for vision processing).
> >
> > So I guess I'm saying that I don't see much of a neccessary
> > difference between intense hobby and more formal student activities
> > (regarding learning intent - I'm not talking about business
> > models).  Not everyone into hobbies is retired.  I'm a member of the
> > Dallas Personal Robotics Group, and only a couple of the guys in
> > that group are retired.  The rest are like me - eager to learn,
> > possibly in preparation for a career move, or otherwise hoping to
> > hit on a commercial angle.  If I got lucky and built something with
> > commercial potential I'd be happy to opt into a full commercial
> > license for the tools I'm using.
>