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Red Hat’s eCos: Going, Going, Gone
- From: Alex Schuilenburg <alexs at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: ecorreia at bzmedia dot com
- Cc: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>, DCN <dcn at ecoscentric dot com>,ecos-maintainers at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 21:16:36 +0000
- Subject: Red Hat’s eCos: Going, Going, Gone
- Organization: eCosCentric Limited
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.
Gary (CC'ed) remains to be an eCos maintainer (all eCos maintainers
CC'ed) and still contributes to eCos. I am sure Gary will confirm
everything above.
There are also further inaccuracies within your article. eCosCentric
was founded by the entire Red Hat eCos team (of which I was manager)
that left Red Hat. This was not 4 but 9 people, including Gary Thomas
who later left eCosCentric at the end of 2002 for his own personal reasons.
In addition, you have also mis-quoted me which I find surprising since
you mentioned at the end of our call that you had taped our
conversation. Of note I said I could not comment on whether Red Hat
were looking for buyers for eCos, but could comment that I knew a few
companies who were interested in purchasing eCos from Red Hat since some
of those companies had also approached the former Red Hat eCos staff.
My last comment was also taken out of context since I was referring to
the alternative for eCos of setting up a NFP and generating revenue
through the sales of eCos licenses that could be ploughed back into the
community. This is not an option with the FSF route.
I trust that you will correct these errors in your article or at least
print an addendum.
Regards
-- Alex
Managing Director / CEO eCosCentric Limited
http://www.ecoscentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts
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