Re: AVR Compiler Recommendations

Chris Hills wrote:
In article <j2q462lmkd0oj55jotbkvrossbf1dv18v4@xxxxxxx>, Paul Keinanen
<keinanen@xxxxxx> writes

For these reasons, I try to avoid any products with dongles or other
awkward copy protection systems.

The same applies to vehicle parts, computers, etc when working out in
the middle of nowhere.


Vehicle parts, computers, etc., are all commodity items that can be easily purchased in most modern towns. Replacement dongles for specialist software is a completely different matter.

BTW your GNU theory falls down as well. How do you reinstall the GNu
compiler if the hard disk crashes? I can's see HP or Dell doing a 4 hour
turnaround to the jungle.

You can borrow or buy another computer - perhaps not in the middle of a jungle, but not far off it. With a tools like winavr (or customer-friendly commercial tools like ImageCraft), you are a download away from being up and running again.


I get the impression the open source community here KNOW the answer and
will use any argument no matter how unlikely to fit their [ religious ]
convictions about open source. It is the only thing that accounts for
the sort of arguments you see here.


You are the only one who has this impression, and I don't know where you get it. Most people here believe in choosing the right tool for the right job, according to how it best fits their requirement. Sometimes open source software fits it best, sometimes not - it depends on your requirements and priorities. If your place high priority on the availability of tools in the future, their portability to current and future machines, your guaranteed ability to fix or modify the tools (obviously dependant on your time and money), and your ability to run them despite problems in licensing hardware or software, then you are strongly pushed towards open source solutions. If that's not your highest priority, you can consider other options. The only person in this discussion who is arguing on the basis of irrational (religious?) prejudices is the one whose blind faith in the hearts of gold selling high-end commercial tools leads him to reject open source solutions outright.
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