Thanks Dirk and Joel for your quick responses. Looks like I was freaking out unnecessarily. The press release tended to emphases the broadening of the supported CPU base for Moblin. Glad that this isn't an excuse to abandon this effort. It has such great possibilities, so it is good news to hear that Intel is still backing it. And Joel that was especially good news on the IVI support! Thanks Dirk Hohndel wrote:
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 10:59:57 -0700 Chris Gates [1]<[email protected]> wrote: So what does this mean to those of us who where waiting for IVI (and really Moblin v2.) to reach a stable release? Seriously, is this just a nice way for Intel to make it all "go away"? (i.e. some cost accountant suddenly realized that Intel is NOT principally a software company?) Not at all. The same (or actually even a few more) engineers from Intel will continue to work on Moblin. This is much more about making sure there are no misunderstandings around the role that Intel plays in Moblin. We are a leading contributor, we've invested a lot of energy and money into this, but it's an open source project - so LF seemed like a great place to take stewardship of the project. Since Intel has washed their hands of it, what would be the incentive for anyone else (read: 'Linux Foundation") to implement Intel's IVI initiative? Nothing has changed in our commitment to Moblin in general and IVI in particular. Rusty your on the steering committee, can you tell us what the new timeline is (especially in regard to IVI)? Any what, if any, future involvement will the Intel development team (do they still have jobs?) have with Moblin and IVI? Not sure where you are getting these ideas from. See above - over the next few weeks even more people paid by Intel will start working on Moblin. Because right now I am feeling that I made a big mistake pursuing an Intel Atom based IVI system (i.e. "Congatec"), since it now appears that Moblin and IVI are "dead projects", can you tell me why I shouldn't feel that way, and continue to hold out hope for an Intel based IVI system? I truly do not understand how you are coming to your conclusions. Relax, take a deep breath, and try again. This is really good news for Moblin. Intel continues to invest heavily and is fully committed - we simply wanted to make it clear to everyone involved that this is NOT an Intel product but an open source project. /D References 1. mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
