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You only THINK they're obliged to fix something. In reality, YOU are obliged to establish that a product is suitable for your purposes as offered, else you're on your own.

Now KEIL's is a good product, though probably far from perfect. If you happen to find any of the probably hundreds of bugs in KEIL, it's almost guaranteed that they'll never be fixed. They may tell you how to work around 'em, but they'll probably just tell you to "live with it." The fact that you've learned to live with 'em doesn't make one product better than another. The fact that it's certain SOMEONE will fix the bugs, sooner or later, if you are smart enough to report 'em, in SDCC, is what makes SDCC appealing.


I can almost guarantee that your Maserati will have less "up-time" than a Yugo. The problem with the Maserati isn't in the "replacement" but in the "functional." If it just has to sit in the garage and look pretty, well, it beats the YUGO every time.



My iCE-51 runs on the MDS from Intel, which was over a decade before Windows.



I personally haven't "switched" to LINUX, but I'm investigating it because Windows is no longer viable from where I sit. I'll continue to limp along with it as long as I can. It's bought and paid-for, after all.

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