🚀 go-pugleaf

Ken Ryan wrote:
> 
> Kenneth P. Turvey (kturvey@pug1.sprocketshop.com) wrote:
> : For $150, why don't you just pay them.  I hadn't ever heard of the
> : company before, but I'm pleased to hear that a commercial company is
> : using the GPL.  Why don't you support their work financially?
> 
> Analog Devices is a huge semiconductor firm.  They specialize in things like
> op-amps, A/D-D/A converters, and have a line of DSPs (to name a few).
> 
> Personally, I'll never understand why semiconductor companies charge many $$
> for their basic development tools (is this even consistent with GPL?).
> Isn't their goal to sell chips?  Won't more people use their cpus if tools
> were free?
> 
> Of course if your tools are very buggy a company then won't have any signifi-
> cant investment to keep them from switching to someone else...but even those
> with the best tools charge many $K.  (I'll never forget when TI's local rep
> told me how much the compilers for the brand-new 'C80 were ~$100K.  I just
> laughed...They've come way down since then of course, but are still expensive)
> 

I may be wrong but wasn't most of the Texas development tools until 
recently supplied by thirdparty companies? If it isn't ur company that
produces the tools u can't just give them away :) 

 
--Lasse 
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Lasse Langwadt Christensen, M.Sc.EE (to be in 1999)
Applied Signal Processing and Implementation(ASPI)
Department of communications, Aalborg university 
lasse@ingenior.dk www.vip.cybercity.dk/~ccc32317