Re: [ECOS] eCos 2.0 Beta Development CDROM

Re: [ECOS] eCos 2.0 Beta Development CDROM

[Gary Thomas]

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 07:33, Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
> eCosCentric, in conjunction with the eCos maintainers, are pleased to 
> announce that they will be selling eCos 2.0 Beta Development CDROMs of 
> the eCos 2.0 Beta release.

While I appreciate that you've added wording to try and explain that
eCosCentric could not have gotten to this point without the maintainers,
I think that this gives a wrong impression.  As far as I know, Mark,
Andrew and myself are not part of this offering, nor will we benefit
[directly] from any proceeds which might come of it.  The statement
implies otherwise.

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Re: [ECOS] eCos 2.0 Beta Development CDROM

[Alex Schuilenburg]

Hi Gary

Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 07:33, Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
> 
>>eCosCentric, in conjunction with the eCos maintainers, are pleased to 
>>announce that they will be selling eCos 2.0 Beta Development CDROMs of 
>>the eCos 2.0 Beta release.
> 
> 
> While I appreciate that you've added wording to try and explain that
> eCosCentric could not have gotten to this point without the maintainers,
> I think that this gives a wrong impression.  As far as I know, Mark,
> Andrew and myself are not part of this offering, nor will we benefit
> [directly] from any proceeds which might come of it.  The statement
> implies otherwise.
> 

I apologise. I should have made our position clearer to you. I did not 
mean to infer that the maintainers were selling the CDROM, merely that 
they contributed to the release along with the rest of the community and 
contributors.

As with eCos licensing, I sincerely doubt very much that we will make 
much profit from sale of the CDROMs.  This is more a service for those 
bound by download bandwidth, or those who don't want the problems of 
downloading, installing, etc. Any profits made will be used to help fund 
the eCos test farm, which hopefully will also become in part a public 
resource. eCosCentric is already spending a significant amount of it's 
own resources getting this together, as you may well guess, since we are 
committed to the future of eCos and RedBoot.

As for actually getting the release together, we greatly appreciate the 
help and contributions that you, Mark and Andrew have provided towards 
the release. As you know, we have had all 4 maintainers here working 
mostly full time for the last 2-3 months building, testing, debugging, 
etc to get this far.

Everything on the CDROM will be available for download from the net 
anyway, including the prebuilt toolchains that have consumed so much of 
our time.

HTH
-- Alex