First of all, I want it to be known that I was not consulted in any
way
about this article. As has been mentioned many times, I was just a
player in the creation of eCos, and was most certainly a late one at
that.
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 05:53, Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
Jonathan Larmour wrote:
Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
Hi Eddie
I just read your article
http://sdtimes.com/news/096/emb1.htm
and was quite astounded by one of the facts you claim - "1998
Gary
Thomas develops the Embedded Cygnus Operating System (eCos)."
This is *totally* incorrect. The original architect of eCos
was Nick
Garnett who developed eCos in 1996, along with the original
team of
Bart Veer and Paul Beskeen. The first release of eCos was in
1997, at
least a year before Gary Thomas joined Cygnus in 1998. Gary
was
approximately the 6th member to join the eCos team around the
time
Cygnus first released eCos publically.
From my recollection, at least Paul, Nick, Bart, Hugo, Stu G,
Rob S,
Chris Provenzano, Daniel Neades, John Dallaway, myself, Chris
Tarpy,
Jesper, Simon Fitzmaurice, Mark Galassi and arguably Gary O, Liz
and
Marc were members of the eCos team before Gary joined. That
makes Gary
between the 14th and 17th eCos team member. It's okay Alex, it
was
before your time too :-).
In that context, you can understand the surprise at such a
statement.
Perhaps there was some misunderstanding given Gary's much longer
history
and experience with PPC Linux as its main original developer?
Or RedBoot, since Gary did write that, although he wrote that
while at
Red Hat during 2000/2001 approx. Gary could give more exact times
for
the birth of RedBoot when he confirms the inaccuracies of the
article.
RedBoot grew out of internal needs and customer demands starting in
late
1999.
Another major inaccuracy in the timeline [sidebar] from the article
is
that eCosCentric was not formed until mid to late summer of 2002,
well
after I had been laid off and the rest [the contingent in the UK]
had
been provided notice of redundancy.
I, too, am appalled at the level of error in this article and
fervently
appeal to the author and/or publisher to provide corrections to the
public.
--
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates