Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > > Hi All ! > > http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19991220S0029 > > VIENNA, Austria - Developers of embedded-Linux systems > ... > also decided to back Cygnus Solutions' EL/IX as a common applications > programming interface (API) for embedded Linux. > > Nearly 100 developers and programmers attended the grass-roots Real > Time Linux Workshop here last week, and all but one voted to proceed > with the use of EL/IX as their API. > > ...the other non-sense sniped... > > I conclude that there where two workshops in vienna > on that peter and me organized and obviously a second one > that we did not know of... > It is simply stupid to belive that puting fals information > out on the net will help push EL/IX as a standard API . > I guess a view people out there did not understand the > ideas of open source and even less the intent and spirit of the > realtime linux workshop in Vienna. > > since the article claims to be based on information from > phil whilshire maby he could comment on it . > > D'ehre > Der Herr Hofrat Willingly I will comment. There was some consderable misunderstanding in the way this article was presented. I was NOT allowed to see the results of a brief telephone interview and much that was printed was a shock to me. I do think that the statements about adopting EL/IX unchanged were inferred from another source. My statement was that we would work together with CYGNUS to help develop EL/IX into something we all could use. This is a warning to all of us not to accept telephone interviews and publication without prior approval of the result. I have been waiting for this backlash in the community and hope that my true motives in all this are clear. If one of us make a mistake we are, in general, merciless. I want Linux to succeed and I want Real Time Linux to succeed. i have devoted many man hours in my own time to helping the community in many ways. I want the Real Time Community to grow stronger and develop the way forward for this technology rather than leave it in the hands of commercial entities. This includes Cygnus. If they push EL/IX as the "Open Source" API and it bears no relationship at all to what is really needed then we all loose. We need to work together with everyone, Cygnus included, and produce what we need as an API. We also cannot present to the waiting users out there a confusing variety of API's. The Real Time Linux community is a very strong force we have what it takes to make this happen. I apologise to the community for any misrepresentation . Those that know me will confirm that I am VERY careful in making any such statements. I will continue to be even more careful in the future. I hope that we can resolve this with a simple public flogging. regards Phil Wilshire --- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/~rtlinux/
