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acks \- Acknowledgments 
This document tries to tie together the labors of a large group of people\&. Without these individuals' efforts, we wouldn't have a terrific, \fI\fBfree\fP\fP set of tools to develop AVR projects\&. We all owe thanks to:
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The GCC Team, which produced a very capable set of development tools for an amazing number of platforms and processors\&.
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Denis Chertykov [ denisc@overta.ru ] for making the AVR-specific changes to the GNU tools\&.
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Denis Chertykov and Marek Michalkiewicz [ marekm@linux.org.pl ] for developing the standard libraries and startup code for \fBAVR-GCC\fP\&.
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Uros Platise for developing the AVR programmer tool, \fBuisp\fP\&.
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Joerg Wunsch [ joerg@FreeBSD.ORG ] for adding all the AVR development tools to the FreeBSD [ http://www.freebsd.org ] ports tree and for providing the basics for the \fBdemo project\fP\&.
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Brian Dean [ bsd@bsdhome.com ] for developing \fBavrdude\fP (an alternative to \fBuisp\fP) and for contributing \fBdocumentation\fP which describes how to use it\&. \fBAvrdude\fP was previously called \fBavrprog\fP\&.
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Eric Weddington [ eweddington@cso.atmel.com ] for maintaining the \fBWinAVR\fP package and thus making the continued improvements to the open source AVR toolchain available to many users\&.
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Rich Neswold for writing the original avr-tools document (which he graciously allowed to be merged into this document) and his improvements to the \fBdemo project\fP\&.
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Theodore A\&. Roth for having been a long-time maintainer of many of the tools (\fBAVR-Libc\fP, the AVR port of \fBGDB\fP, \fBAVaRICE\fP, \fBuisp\fP, \fBavrdude\fP)\&.
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All the people who currently maintain the tools, and/or have submitted suggestions, patches and bug reports\&. (See the AUTHORS files of the various tools\&.)
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And lastly, all the users who use the software\&. If nobody used the software, we would probably not be very motivated to continue to develop it\&. Keep those bug reports coming\&. ;-) 
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