Re: [ECOS] Red Hat backs away from eCos?

[Michael Kelly <mike at cogcomp dot com>]

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.

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.

Anyway, I think an eCos free from Red Hat is good for the embedded
world and I do not believe it will die off. 

Regards,
Michael

At 06:40 AM 6/19/2002 -0700, Bruce Smith wrote:
>http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5933176616.html
>
>According to this article it is true. And from what I can tell Red Hat have no eCos programmers left to support existing customers either.
>
>Anyone from Red Hat care to comment?
>
>regards
>bruce
>
>
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