If a guy builds his own linker that allows code to be loaded and executed at 0x0000 rather than 0x0800 or wherever, do you really think he's got access to the entire package? I doubt it. He hasn't at that point got anything except a way to load his code into a particular MCU with a memory model incompatible with the demo package's output.

If the vendor had seen to it that there were a way to accommodate the up-do-date device repertoire, this wouldn't even have come up.



I disagree ... mainly because the unscrupulous individuals who might otherwise have to buy a costly software suite such as the one under discussion would not buy it under any circumstances, hence, the vendor has lost nothing. Further, if the unscrupulous individuals who might attempt this were both smart and diligent and skilled enough, which experience has taught me they generally are not, and, if they were not too lazy to do such work, which experience has taught me that they typically are, they'd (a) have thought of this themselves, as it's not rocket science, and (b)would never do it because it's too much work and, having done the work, they'd still not have access to the full tool set.

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