Re: [Sdcc-user] Re: ATMEL 8051 - SDCC Vs KEIL

[Dave M. <mc...@ne...>]

On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 09:20 AM, The Storys wrote:
>>>    Heh, c'mon man...I'm an embedded systems guy.  How long do you 
>>> think
>>> that dongle requirement actually lasted? ;)
>
> hehe !!! Ahem...
>
> Its odd that a company developing embedded systems tools
> would even bother with a "security" device such as a dongle.

   Yup.

> Perhaps its the dongle combined with paranoia that leads them to
> charge 2,000 -> 5,000 for their product.

   Commercial software, man.  Commercial software.  What a nightmare.  I 
mean, their compiler is decent, but heck...they'd have to pay ME a lot 
more than $5000 to get me to dump SDCC!  And let's not even get into 
that whole "Windows only" thing...

        -Dave

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