From: "Bruce Smith" <brucesmith666@hotmail.com>
To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Red Hat backs away from eCos?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F148C3hSsxLtBH49KOl00002201@hotmail.com> (raw)
Michael Kelly wrote:
>HI,
>
>For what it's worth, I say good riddance. Red Hat never knew what
>to do with eCOs or even GNU for that matter. Now that the eCos
>source is GPL'ed (with appropriate modifiers for embedded use), I
>believe it will take off. I intend to show my support by working with some
>of the developers to create board/eCos bundles for development
>use. I encourage all of the board vendors out there to do the same.
I agree. And by developers I assume you mean those laid off? I still see
activity from familiar names though no longer with Red Hat email addresses
:-) Who will maintain eCOs if Red Hat are not?
>
>And as for end users, support eCos by working with the developers
>and funding the projects. Maybe now they can take on reasonable
>size jobs since they do not have to meet the inflated levels of revenue
>Red Hat expected of each customer.
There were rumours of an eCOs startup. Does anyone know what happened to
that? Did their VC fall through, or are they still looking for VC?
>
>Anyway, I think an eCos free from Red Hat is good for the embedded
>world and I do not believe it will die off.
I agree. Red Hat were becoming the Microsoft of the Open Source world so
this can only be a good thing.
regards
bruce
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-19 7:28 Bruce Smith [this message]
2002-06-20 0:36 ` Kjell Svensson
2002-06-20 6:52 ` Scott Dattalo
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2002-06-20 6:37 Bruce Smith
2002-06-19 23:59 Gustav Kälvesten
2002-06-19 20:59 jyl087
2002-06-19 19:03 Tim Drury
2002-06-20 18:46 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-06-19 6:40 Bruce Smith
2002-06-19 6:54 ` Michael Kelly
2002-06-19 21:35 ` Grant Edwards
2002-06-20 9:20 ` Gary Thomas
2002-06-20 9:25 ` Grant Edwards
2002-06-20 9:29 ` Gary Thomas
2002-06-20 18:43 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-06-20 20:03 ` Christopher Faylor
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