Mobile-friendly copy of the parent's quote: > Consequently, the megaAVR remains the most open-source 8-bit microcontroller on the market — by a long shot. and

Mobile-friendly copy of the parent's quote: > Consequently, the megaAVR remains the most open-source 8-bit microcontroller on the market — by a long shot. and your quote: > But even as popular as Atmel is among hobbyists, Atmel has largely stayed out of this space directly. Instead, they’ve secured small-volume AVR sales by relying on the open-source community to build their own tools for themselves: turning out a slew of hardware and software used to program the megaAVR devices. > While I applaud the efforts of these developers, these tools are inferior to Atmel’s. Their programming speeds are terrible, they don’t support the new tinyAVR 1-Series devices, and they have absolutely no debug capability. Don't use leading spaces to quote text, that's for unformatted text. Do this instead: > *Text.*