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Red Hat will give eCos Copyrights to the FSF!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the very-cool-gesture dept.

An anonymous reader notes "Businesswire reports in this article that RedHat will assign its copyrights for the eCos embedded OS to the FSF. This is great news, considering that they have stopped developing it in 2002. Hopefully this will mean new life for the project."

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  1. New life for the project? by SpanishInquisition · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean like HURD?

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  2. Get it right! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    SCO/FSF/GNU/eCos

  3. hmm... by Suppafly · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder what license the FSF will put on the copyrights when they get them?

  4. Re:Depends by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Funny

    You painted an interesting picture, but left a big gap.

    There are a lot of commercial companies actually using Linux, for whom QNX and eCOS are not worth the investment in light of recent kernel advances.

    I'm sorry. I could have sworn that I already stated that the other end of the spectrum is "already using Embedded Linux and *BSD". Oh wait. I did.

    You might save yourself some trouble if you read more carefully. :-)

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  5. Re:QNX IS ON TEH SPOKE!!~1`` by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wasn't that nice of moderators to moderate a polite comment out of existence? So, I'll repost it at +2 and if that gets modded to -1, I'll post it again. Here's the original response:

    Here we have an example of the rarest of birds, an informed and insightful post... on slashdot.

    QNX truly is the king of kings.

    To which I replied:

    Check my posting history. I don't always get it right, but I always attempt to present an informed and useful opinion.

    And if you don't care for friendly banter, you can mark me as a foe. I'll get all broken up about it. Really. (rolls eyes)

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