[ECOS] eCos Press Kudos

[ECOS] eCos Press Kudos

[Jonathan Larmour]

Just out of interest, an article in Technology Review (
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/may01/tristram.asp ) includes the
following mention of eCos.

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Proprietary companies are trying to become more open. Linux supporters are
trying to make Linux more embedded. But there might be a better solution
than either of these: an open operating system that is designed from the
ground up for use in the types of embedded computers that are increasingly
pervading our world. 

Enter eCos, which stands for "embedded configurable operating system." ECos
is an open-source, real-time operating system sold by Red Hat of Durham,
NC-the leading seller of shrink-wrapped Linux software. "ECos doesn't
pretend to be all things to all people," says Bill Gatliff. Gatliff is a
software consultant who describes himself as a "free software advocate,"
even though he is skeptical of embedded Linux. "Everyone talks about Linux
having an army of engineers worldwide working on improving the code," he
says. "But it's really just a very small number of programmers that are
making substantive changes." He says that eCos has "a small set of very
good contributors, and that's enough." 
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There's plenty more they could have said in the article, but they never
talked to Red Hat :-).

Jifl
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