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From their FAQ page...
Quote: How much do the tools cost?
It is completely free, enjoy!
Link is: HERE
Has anyone else downloaded the package ?
Are they telling the truth ?
What other questions do I need to ask ?
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Most uController manufacturers give away dev tools in order to persuade you to use the chip / chip set. (The exception being ARM who charged an ARM and a leg last time I looked).
They normally figure that they'll more than get the money back on the volume you use!
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That has been my experience, and was my immediate assumption, as the business model you describe has worked fantastically for both parties for years now.
I was looking at various other similar offerings from Intel, with very similar web page designs, which had labels like, "Starting at $899" which set off some brain cells in my head.
I'm wondering if this is a highly limited version or something.
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Many are free, but some not so easy.
[Widcomm I think, apologies if wrong] for instance offered their SDK "free", just sign up and wait for the email with the link. Well unless you were a company that fit their approved profile, (and definitely not an individual) forget it - 'sorry, you do not fit our approved profile.' or something to that effect. (And from the email it was approved/rejected by a human.)
Well to them: you can stick that rejection in your betamax and bugger yourselves with it; it's no wonder not only can Chinese knockoff's do so well, but can sometimes even take over the market.
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"...an Eclipse*-integrated software suite..."
Ugh.
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Help me understand "ugh".
Am I going to have to install more than just the studio package itself ?
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eclipse is an IDE. I work with it every day and find it terrible.
Since the kit uses gcc, to run under windows, it will need MinGW (or cygwin) but I presume it will install those. (If someone wants to do a massive favor to developers, it would be to make a truly Windows native version of GCC/G++.)
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Well done, old chap.
Just had a quick skim and will certainly re-read a couple of the chapters. 
However, I was very disappointed at the lack of gratuitous sex and violence and what happened to the protagonist??? You'll never get a movie deal based on this... 
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: You'll never get a movie deal based on this
I hear Nicolas Cage is already signed up for the lead role!
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Thanks! 
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: I was very disappointed at the lack of gratuitous sex and violence and what happened to the protagonist
Sit tight for part 2, it's introducing arch enemies Java and Oracle. Action, blood and violence guaranteed!
Then there's the girl, Linux. Sex will be raunchy and abundant.
As for the movie deal... Uwe Boll already contacted me 
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Makes me think of Tom Lehrer Lobachevsky[^] -
"Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva bought the movie rights for six million rubels, changing title to 'The Eternal Triangle' with Brigitte Bardot playing part of hypotenuse".
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Congrats! I have downloaded and will check it out.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Thanks, hope you like it
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Congrats! I'll take a look soon. 
Marc
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Thanks! 
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I too slurped it into my books collection even though my own preference is to mysql with a sprinkling of firebird. (No extra mileage from selling my soul to two evil empires, but who knows what might happen down the road.)
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I've used Firebird at University (they used Firebird because of all SQL databases it's closest to the ANSI standard).
I didn't know people actually used that in real life 
It did seem like a good enough database, but it seemed immature to me at the time (lacking good tooling, etc.).
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Couple of clients had some software that uses firebird as back end, developed a few quick inquiry apps for them. (One is not even on the latest version of fb to make it even more fun - even less features.)
It's not a choice I would make as I agree that it's got an immature feel about it; sad really coz fb is actually quite a few years old but still lacks a lot of basic features, types and functions, many face-palms later can get around with what's there, but then found the numeric float/double precision is something to be really wary of: had to resort to using fixed digit decimal (store as int and use * / 10000) as even at 4 decimal places the accuracy was shocking.
- But I guess that's ANSI: always needs use twice the work/code to get things done.
Luckily .Net connector works well enough - as long as you stay away from blobs.
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I've downloaded it to my Dropbox account for future perusal 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Hope you'll like it
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I had a quick look through after I downloaded it and it looks very useful. I've saved it on our shared development folder at work for the rest of the development team too
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That's awesome, thanks!
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Thanks, Sander! I grabbed it and will be checking it out shortly. I've got a little project in mind, and need to refresh my SQL Server memory; getting old sucks! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: getting old sucks!
It's still better than the alternative! 
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