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TRON Enters Alliance With Microsoft
David writes "As widely reported on OSNews.com,
Forbes,
IDG,
CNet,
AustralianIT,
and Ashi
Shimbun - Microsoft Corp.
has entered into an alliance with the T-engine
Forum, the consortium behind the free software TRON
operating system. As TRON runs billions of
devices worldwide, this will help Microsoft's goal of cementing WinCE / .NET
in places as diverse as your toaster and cell phone, perhaps in a setup
similar to how X-Windows is in relation to the Linux kernel." (Continued below.)
David continues: "This arrangement is ironic, as Microsoft is part of the reason why the U.S. in the 1980s prevented Japan from putting TRON into schools on the desktop by account of trade rules, which would've meant Linux may've never gone beyond being a footnote in the comp.os.minix archives. No doubt Microsoft is aiming to keep Linux out of the embedded space, and may in the long-term foster an environment where using anything other than industry-licenced OS software on the desktop becomes unviable for everyday tasks because all the infratructurial systems we take for granted today like radio, television, phones, IM, require Palladium-style walled gardens."
I'll never believe it... Tron fights for the users. He'd never work for the MCP.
Too late, they already put Windows on my gun, and it just keeps rebooting when I pull the trigger.
Blue Screen of Light-Cycle?
10b||~10b -- aah, what a question!
Err, shouldn't that be "I for one welcome our Microsoft Overlords... Again"
Leopards don't change their spots
Lions don't lie with lambs
Microsoft doesn't play well with others
Its really a shame that theres always someone out there who figures theyr'e the ones that can get a fair shake out of Microsoft.
Microsoft allready moved against TRON being adopted by japanese schools. (WTO trade regs were their weapon of choice). Does anyone at the TRON project really think the vole of redmond has had a change of heart ?
The only ray of hope here, is that it will provide a great impetus to embeded linux. I can just see chinese party officials thinking their refrigerators are spying on them because they run microsoft operating systems.
TRON and Microsoft are only working together on a new security system that will be able to protect heterogeneous systems from attack, so there is no reason to worry.
The first SDK for this software ("Skynet") should be out in about 18 months.
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
Better than having to pay an extra $699 to SCO for my toaster.
If my toaster were Linux powered, my toast would come out perfectly every time. The caveat is that the toast would have to be cut up into 40 pieces and thrown up into the air because the toaster is mounted on the ceiling and everyone who suggests that it should go on a counter would be told "You can open up the toaster and see the guts. Go build your own."
On top of that, no one knows that they have to cut their toast into 40 pieces before a perfect toasting session because asking for help with their toaster nets them a "RTFM," leading them to a 400 page manual that explains everything but they kitchen sink when they just want to have a piece of toast. That, or they get directed to toast tech support which charges them $50 a year for a straight answer.
There'd be a ToastMaster who would decide when and where the latest model of the toaster gets released. Again, other gizmo fans could roll their own toaster, but people taking on names like ToasterOne would end up getting in shit for doing so.
The agreement will allow the Windows CE .NET platform for digital devices to work on top of T-Kernel.
My first reaction to this is that here is Microsoft trying to stem the tide against the proposed OS that China, Japan, and Korea are thinking about.
In Japan, Microsoft has a fair bit of prestige... unlike, say, in Europe or the US where MS's reputation is sullied by the anti-trust suits. The Japanese, IMO, don't really think that the general public minds MS dominance... but then the Japanese wouldn't say openly that they hate MS or anything. Plus most IT workers would be thrilled to work for MS Japan... they have lots of cash after all. There seems to be no debate here about "which OS is better" like there is in other western countries.
READY.
PRINT ""+-0
Microsoft Certified Professionals?
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* Before someone tries to corrects me, don't worry, I already know the reference to Tron the movie.
I'm not looking forward to the BSOD on my toaster...
Is that a Brown Slice Of Death ?
Never, ever lose a file again. Ever.
As a sidenote, the main thrust of the T-Engine platform is high portabilty of middlewares across various embedded emvironments with different CPUs. This portabilty is made possible by a standard opensource kernel, which is based on micro-ITRON 3.0, and standalization of hardware. Dr. Sakamura even said he is going to fix the specification of the realtime kernel by the end of year and it will not be changed for the next HUNDRED years for the sake of comatibilty of middlewares. Moreover, there are rumors that a subsidary of Panasonic is developing a desktop operating system based on T-Engine. This is a very exciting year for the TRON project indeed.
I said it before and I'll say it again: where can I find the source and the license to tron? It seems that tron is more of an open specification of a RTOS, and there are a ton of closed binary-only implementations.
This actually kinda reminds me of the MIPS processor architechure.. there is an open specification and lots of people produce chips for the ISA.. but it wasn't until opencores came along that there was an open implementation.. and there is no open implementation for TRON yet, AFAIK.
Is tron open-source? Where is the code? Where is the license? Whats the story here? If it really is open-source, why can't someone point to the code? Something is fishy here.. or perhaps its just lost in the translation.. but I can't figure this out.
-molo
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