RE: [lwip-devel] For those of you working with an Altera product...

[Bill Auerbach]

Personally, and I'm not a developer of lwIP, I'm pretty damn offended in
consideration of those who are by:

<quote>
Royalty Free, TCP/IP Source Code

A so-called "Free TCP/IP Stack" is usually worth exactly what was paid for
it, and the cost of understanding and then supporting it for your embedded
development project is often far more than a royalty-free source code
license from InterNiche.

</quote>

Wow. I can say one thing - I've had a lot more problems and a much larger
learning curve with the $6000 Freescale CodeWarrior.  Sure, it's a larger
more complex program, but it defies "You get what you pay for" by a large
margin.  I would say this is false advertising - we all get a *lot* more
than we paid - all costs considered - for lwIP.

Sorry to go off topic, but this struck a nerve.  And so it's a good time to
thank everyone for a great job on lwIP - I know we all know this, but it
really is a very good implementation of TCP/IP and a well-written library of
code, especially in light of the goals it sets to achieve and does, and the
platforms it can (and will) work on.

Ditto - keep up the great work!  And thank you!

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
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> To: lwip-devel; Mailing list for lwIP users
> Subject: [lwip-devel] For those of you working with an Altera
> product...
> 
> Some months (or even over a year?) ago, Altera has decided lwIP is
> 'deprecated' and they now ship the interniche stack instead :-(
> 
> Now I wonder why interniche has (as far as I know) a new product called
> 'Lightweight TCP/IP' (see links on left side of on
> http://www.iniche.com/)...? I think we made a good example for them :-)
> 
> Keep up the good free work!
> Simon
> 
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