On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Paolo Mantegazza wrote:
> About what Jamal said in another mail. I'm not in full knowledge of the
> intrecacies of the open source community but I do not see any market
> plot in that. Can you comment further?
I have a lot of respect for Cygnus and like you i jump to their web site
all the time to check or download something and i might have over-reacted
because i posted just after reading their whitepaper.
I dont think ECOS as an open source embedded software is used that much
(relative to RTL or RTAI). And i truly believe that Both RTL and RTAI are
making inroads. People (in the industry) are beginning to pay attention
to them. Basically, the penguin is ready for some serious attention in the
embeded space. This sort of makes them competition to ECOS (unlike say
Caldera's embedix/LINEO which has decided Linux is the way to go). Thats
my theory. And then i read the white paper which emphasizes about saving
Linux from "fragmentation". Not sure if they are refering to the situation
here between you and Victor. I think actually having the two forks (or is
it 3 or 4) is actually a good thing (tm). At some point we merge and get
the best of both worlds -- or as in other Open Source projects one
project dies. It seems to me that Cygnus' white paper is preaching to use
Linux as the development environment to quickly prototype something so
that you can move it to a better system -- ECOS. I could be wrong, but
this was the after taste from the White paper which i reffered to as a
silly marketing ploy.
cheers
jamal
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