PIC is not the name of the company. It's Microchip Technology, Inc. You seem to be upset about something, since I don't think you have the facts straight about

PIC is not the name of the company. It's Microchip Technology, Inc. You seem to be upset about something, since I don't think you have the facts straight about the XC series of compilers; the source code for XC16 and XC32 is posted here under "Source Archive" http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/devtools/dev-tools-parts.html http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/devtools/dev-tool... Microchip has a number of open-source initiatives. You can use the internal guts of MPLAB X from Java via MDBcore, for example, as a scriptable debugger/simulator.