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I'm not that familiar with the M3, but some of the PIC chips have much more expansive hardware interfaces and internals than comparable AVR parts. A lot of tim
by bradfa 15y ago
I'm not that familiar with the M3, but some of the PIC chips have much more expansive hardware interfaces and internals than comparable AVR parts. A lot of times, PIC chips are cheaper, too.
Microchip can't develop the libraries internally due to contracts (it sounds like) so they're appealing to the community to bring them up to speed. They're offering compensation in the form of prizes. Why be negative on their attempt? They're trying to do the "right thing," granted, later than others, but still, it's a move in the direction the community wants them to go. Don't be negative about people trying to do the "right thing."
- pingswept 15y agoI think you're giving Microchip too much credit. They say that contractually they "can’t release [their] existing stacks", not that they can't port other open source stacks to their hardware, or develop their own from scratch. I agree with you that they're trying to do the right thing, more or less. (Speaking for myself, not the OP,) the reason for the negative reaction is that they're touting their kit as "open source" when it's not, after a long history of proprietary development. If they had lived up to their claims from the start, I think the reaction would have been entirely positive.