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28
29/** \page acks Acknowledgments
30
31    This document tries to tie together the labors of a large group of
32    people. Without these individuals' efforts, we wouldn't have a terrific,
33    <i><b>free</b></i> set of tools to develop AVR projects. We all owe thanks
34    to:
35
36	- The GCC Team, which produced a very capable set of development tools for
37	an amazing number of platforms and processors.
38
39	- Denis Chertykov [ denisc@overta.ru ] for making the AVR-specific changes
40	to the GNU tools.
41
42	- Denis Chertykov and Marek Michalkiewicz [ marekm@linux.org.pl ] for
43	developing the standard libraries and startup code for \b AVR-GCC.
44
45	- Uros Platise for developing the AVR programmer tool, \b uisp.
46
47	- Joerg Wunsch [ joerg@FreeBSD.ORG ] for adding all the AVR development
48	tools to the FreeBSD [ http://www.freebsd.org ] ports tree and for
49	providing the basics for the \ref demo_project "demo project".
50
51	- Brian Dean [ bsd@bsdhome.com ] for developing \b avrdude (an alternative
52	to <b>uisp</b>) and for contributing \ref using_avrprog "documentation"
53	which describes how to use it. \b Avrdude was previously called
54	\b avrprog.
55
56	- Eric Weddington [ eweddington@cso.atmel.com ] for maintaining the \b WinAVR
57	package and thus making the continued improvements to the
58	open source AVR toolchain available to many users.
59
60	- Rich Neswold for writing the original avr-tools document (which he
61	graciously allowed to be merged into this document) and his
62	improvements to the \ref demo_project "demo project".
63
64	- Theodore A. Roth for having been a long-time maintainer of
65	many of the tools (\b AVR-Libc, the AVR port of \b GDB, \b AVaRICE,
66	\b uisp, \b avrdude).
67
68	- All the people who currently maintain the tools, and/or
69	have submitted suggestions, patches and bug reports.
70    (See the AUTHORS files of the various tools.)
71
72	- And lastly, all the users who use the software. If nobody used the
73	software, we would probably not be very motivated to continue to develop
74	it. Keep those bug reports coming. ;-)
75
76*/
77