Re: C Compiler for 8051 microcontroler

From: Grant Edwards (grante_at_visi.com)
Date: 01/13/04 

Date: 13 Jan 2004 04:30:36 GMT

In article <hqFap7CV0vAAFA8k@phaedsys.demon.co.uk>, Chris Hills wrote:

> If it is open source, I have to test and validate the version I have.

How is that any different than having to test and validate the
verion you have of a commecial product?

> I have no idea if the one I have is the tested version of if
> some well meaning idiot has "adjusted" the source and
> re-compiled it.
>
>>> I have no guarantees that it has not been "adjusted" buy some
>>> well meaning idiot.
>>
>>You have no such guarantees with proprietary software either.
>>In fact you have *less* guarantees as you don't have the source to
>>check what's changed.
>
> Far more guarantees... unless you are suggesting the the commercia
> companies lie?

No, but their software has more bugs than open-source
equivalents according to a number of fairly extensive studies.
[Of course if you can't find an open-source equivalent, it's
moot.] 

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