Re: Red eCos: Going, Going, Gone

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 07:30, Eddie Correia wrote:
> Hello everyone: 
> 
> I apologize for the error; the information I found on eCos history was
> obviously wring and we will run a correction. 
> 
> I'll be in touch with more specifics about how this happened in a few
> days. 

So what ever happened with this?  It's now [nearly] March 1, and I've 
not heard anything.

> 
> -Eddie
> 
> At 08:37 AM 2/17/2004, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
> > First of all, I want it to be known that I was not consulted in any
> > way
> > about this article.  As has been mentioned many times, I was just a 
> > player in the creation of eCos, and was most certainly a late one at
> > that.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 05:53, Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
> > > Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >> Hi Eddie
> > > >>
> > > >> I just read your article
> > > >>   http://sdtimes.com/news/096/emb1.htm
> > > >> and was quite astounded by one of the facts you claim - "1998 ­
> > Gary 
> > > >> Thomas develops the Embedded Cygnus Operating System (eCos)."
> > > >>
> > > >> This is *totally* incorrect.  The original architect of eCos
> > was Nick 
> > > >> Garnett who developed eCos in 1996, along with the original
> > team of 
> > > >> Bart Veer and Paul Beskeen.  The first release of eCos was in
> > 1997, at 
> > > >> least a year before Gary Thomas joined Cygnus in 1998.  Gary
> > was 
> > > >> approximately the 6th member to join the eCos team around the
> > time 
> > > >> Cygnus first released eCos publically.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >  From my recollection, at least Paul, Nick, Bart, Hugo, Stu G,
> > Rob S, 
> > > > Chris Provenzano, Daniel Neades, John Dallaway, myself, Chris
> > Tarpy, 
> > > > Jesper, Simon Fitzmaurice, Mark Galassi and arguably Gary O, Liz
> > and 
> > > > Marc were members of the eCos team before Gary joined. That
> > makes Gary 
> > > > between the 14th and 17th eCos team member. It's okay Alex, it
> > was 
> > > > before your time too :-).
> > > > 
> > > > In that context, you can understand the surprise at such a
> > statement. 
> > > > Perhaps there was some misunderstanding given Gary's much longer
> > history 
> > > > and experience with PPC Linux as its main original developer?
> > > 
> > > Or RedBoot, since Gary did write that, although he wrote that
> > while at 
> > > Red Hat during 2000/2001 approx.  Gary could give more exact times
> > for 
> > > the birth of RedBoot when he confirms the inaccuracies of the
> > article.
> > > 
> > 
> > RedBoot grew out of internal needs and customer demands starting in
> > late
> > 1999.
> > 
> > Another major inaccuracy in the timeline [sidebar] from the article
> > is
> > that eCosCentric was not formed until mid to late summer of 2002,
> > well
> > after I had been laid off and the rest [the contingent in the UK]
> > had
> > been provided notice of redundancy.
> > 
> > I, too, am appalled at the level of error in this article and
> > fervently
> > appeal to the author and/or publisher to provide corrections to the
> > public.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
> > MLB Associates
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Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
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