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Originally Posted by ScottWalls
One thing that we really cannot get around, however, is MCC. MCC is NOT free software. Microchip will almost certainly not make an open source alternative (or even a unix or linux alternative) to MCC. It will certainly not do open source because they're making money off of it and it's really basically their only source of income.
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I doubt that. Microchip is in the business of selling embedded processors. Not in selling compilers. They do release the entire instruction set for free. There is nothing preventing someone else from creating their own compiler.