I've spent a lot of time (not as much as most) coming to grips with all the 
versions and changes of RTLinux from ver 0.9 to v3.1 and how it effects what 
I would like to develop (it in to something).

I would be dishearten to find the $165 I paid for RTLinux 3.0 meant nothing, 
and I was left out in the cold.  Please tell me this is not so.



On Thursday 28 March 2002 16:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In my opinion it seems like the *moderators* of these lists are
> passively attempting, or simply playing their respective roles, to keep
> members of the rtlinux community in the dark.
>
> Until Richard Reeve's email earlier today, and consequential remarks, I had
> little clue, but certain suspicions, as to why current kernel patches were
> not being made publicly available.
>
> Most of the rtlinux subscribers do not read the advocacy list, which should
> hopefully change after today, and were not completely aware of the wizardry
> going on behind the curtains.
>
> sincerely,
> brent ledvina
>
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Keep this on the advocacy list.
> >
> > } :-) Warning: advocacy coming! :-)
> > } In my opinion, this is not going to work: for the GPL model to work,
> > there } needs to be not just a user community, but a centralized
> > maintainer/developer } (person or group) who is responsible for deciding
> > what goes in, what doesn't, } and who either does much of the work or
> > distributes it out. That was the role } that Victor et al. could be
> > playing, but they don't want to because they are } trying to make a
> > business of it. I don't see anybody else playing that role, } and I think
> > that means the future of OpenRTLinux is bleak.
> > }
> > } I would be interested in other people's opinions. I am crossposting to
> > } rtl-advocacy, and I think the discussion probably should move there.
> > }
> > } Pablo Alvarez
> > }
> > } On Thursday 28 March 2002 08:39, you wrote:
> > } > Advocacy, especially advocacy constructed of nonsense is not
> > } > acceptable on this list.
> > } >
> > } > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:25:15AM +0000, Richard Reeve wrote:
> > } > > I think RTAI is the solution really. I made the mistake of going
> > with } > > RTLinux in the first place because it was better advertised,
> > the only } > > problem is finding the time to deal with the changeover.
> > As far as I } > > understand there are newer patches for the kernel that
> > fsmlabs won't } > > release to us (I would have thought that that was
> > explicitly illegal } > > under the kernel's gpl), as they want to make
> > money off them, but I } > > may be way off there. Understandable, but the
> > problem for me is as } > > that a university researcher trying to get one
> > robot to talk to one } > > computer, the only way I could afford the paid
> > version is out of my } > > own pocket - not very tempting.
> > } > >
> > } > > Cheers,
> > } > >
> > } > > Richard Reeve.
> > } >
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