Microchip proposes prize for open sourcing "their" proprietary libraries

Or we could just use an AVR or Cortex-M3 with already-open tools.<p>The 1990s called; they want their crappy non-free embedded toolchain back.

I'm amazed that a company the size of microchip would actually respond in a non-flippant manner to something 'some guy' wrote on his blog.<p><a href="http://dangerousprototypes.com/2011/08/30/editorial-our-friend-microchip-and-open-source/" rel="nofollow">http://dangerousprototypes.com/2011/08/30/editorial-our-frie...</a>