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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. Wonderful news! by Seth+Finklestein · · Score: 0, Troll

    I used to work for a large consulting company (their name starts with "A" and ends with "con," if that's any clarification) that developed an embedded OS. This OS, "Clarix," was highly advanced and far superior to the piece of commercial dreck they bought for pennies on the dollar. They then jettisoned all the Clarix developers, but the large company retained copyrights on all their "intellectual property."

    I am highly gladdened to see Red Hat doing the right thing: when they no longer have a use for a product, they give the product away so that future hackers can leverage its power. Kudos to you, Red Hat!

    Sincerely,
    Seth Finklestein
    Retired Developer

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    I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.
    1. Re:Wonderful news! by Seth+Finklestein · · Score: 0, Troll

      Clarix was a "private-label" operating system. A*on only called it "Clarix" internally. Licensees were free to add their own branding and replace the name. The only documents you might find about Clarix are on the A*on intranet; of course, since you can't search that from Google, you can't find any "insider information" about it.

      Sincerely,
      Seth Finklestein
      Former Clarix Expert

      --
      I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.