[ECOS] Red Hat backs away from eCos?

[Bruce Smith]

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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