gnupic: Thread: Don't believe everything you read (?)

I was doing some research last night and I stumbled across this : 

http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/pipermail/plug-devel/2000-September/000085.html

Synopsis:

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Today, as I walked out of work at Chandler Microchip, I saw 
a cute, degrading -somewhat accurate- posting on the side of 
a cubicle, referring to Win95.  On the bookshelf inside , I 
saw: The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup; The 
Standard C Library by Plauger and the O'Reilly books on Lex 
and Yacc and RCS and SCCS.  On the desk inside was a computer 
booting up.  On the right side of the console was a column 
of green [OK]'s.  I exclaimed, "That's Red Hat!!". The guy 
across the hall stood up and came over to talk.  Shortly, 
the told me that they wrote compilers for the Microchip "PIC" 
processors and were planning to make the source code Open 
Source.  He will be contacting Eric Raymond.  He is also 
interested in PLUG.  We didn't have much time to talk, but 
will in the future.

Daniel F. Montagnese

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Have any of you heard this?  I sent an email to the Microchip Third
Party Development Manager, but he hasn't responed.

Hello,
Some time ago, I can't really recall when exactly, maybe May or June 2000,
I have sent an e-mail message to Microchip, through a form in their
webpage asking if they were planning support for their products in the
Linux OS. A few days later there was a reply waiting in my inbox. I read
it, of course. The information contained in that e-mail was that their
priority was to build a hybrid and stable MPLab for Windows 9x and Windows
2000. Then, when they have achieved that goal, then maybe they could put
some people working on "other alternatives". They also suggested me to
start looking for software on http://www.linuxhacker.org . That's how I
ended up subscribing this mailing list.

Right now, MPLab for windows is still a 16 bit application, but Windows
2000 support is at least nearly complete. The application is not really
stable, and people who use it know that for sure. By the end of the year
2000, a new hypertext link has come up in Microchip webpage, it relates to
Linux support. It points to this address:
http://www.microchip.com/10/tools/support/linux/index.htm

What really got my attention was one of the last sentences in the
reply. It was like this:
"Consider your vote for Linux counted."
This one cheered me up. I really think they will do it.

This is the best match to Craig's post. Sorry I couldn't find the reply on
my disk, for better accuracy, but I think it was on my 4.3 GB Micropolis
which gave up spinning some time ago.

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On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Craig Franklin wrote:

> I was doing some research last night and I stumbled across this : 
> 
> http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/pipermail/plug-devel/2000-September/000085.html
> 
> Synopsis:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Today, as I walked out of work at Chandler Microchip, I saw 
> a cute, degrading -somewhat accurate- posting on the side of 
> a cubicle, referring to Win95.  On the bookshelf inside , I 
> saw: The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup; The 
> Standard C Library by Plauger and the O'Reilly books on Lex 
> and Yacc and RCS and SCCS.  On the desk inside was a computer 
> booting up.  On the right side of the console was a column 
> of green [OK]'s.  I exclaimed, "That's Red Hat!!". The guy 
> across the hall stood up and came over to talk.  Shortly, 
> the told me that they wrote compilers for the Microchip "PIC" 
> processors and were planning to make the source code Open 
> Source.  He will be contacting Eric Raymond.  He is also 
> interested in PLUG.  We didn't have much time to talk, but 
> will in the future.
> 
> Daniel F. Montagnese
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Have any of you heard this?  I sent an email to the Microchip Third
> Party Development Manager, but he hasn't responed.
> 
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