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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle
I swear, I'm not trying to be the LabVIEW guy in the "Java or C++" thread, but I just wanted to comment on a few things.
I hope no one is paying money for either Wind River tools or LabVIEW tools. Teams are given as many copies as can be stuffed on the hard drives. Yes, in industry and in academia, people pay money for those products. That is how I make my house payments. Through the affiliates program, I know Bjarne Stroustrup and the A&M portion of the gcc distro guys and they live in houses too. I guess my point is that I don't see the connection between someone else paying money for something that you get for free and which tool helps your students learn to program a robot.
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By saying the development tools are free, I'm saying it's less of a PIA when you have to flash 30 computers with the same image and you've run out of LabView keys or finding the key to upgrade to the latest version. It's nice to be able to download NetBeans and use it.