"Metrowerks has not discontinued its support for Linux tools. The Linux space is one of the fastest growing segments in the market, and we are continually assessing our product strategy to best meet the needs of developers. As always, Metrowerks is committed to providing best-of-class tools for multiple platforms."
Six weeks ago, Metrowerks launched CodeWarrior for RedHat Linux, GNU Edition. We do in fact have a marketing agreement with Red Hat, however, Metrowerks is not restricted in any way to supporting only a Red Hat distribution. CodeWarrior has been validated on other distributions and we have not knowingly added any restrictions that limits it on any other Linux distributions. How can you be assured this is in fact the case. I think our track record in other markets may be of interest in this regards.
Metrowerks supports many operating systems for desktop and embedded computing including Windows, Mac, Palm, PlayStation, Nintendo, QNX, etc. Our OS partners want us to be the best tools company there is, and they do not want us competing against them. So we go to great lengths to make sure all of our partners are comfortable with this. This does not mean we are restricted in any way and in fact, we have many situations where we support competing operating systems. For instance, we support Mac and Windows who compete every day in the market, and we also support all of the games console vendors. Our operating systems partners understand we need to support a lot of target OSes to make our business model work. They accept this as we do not compete with them directly.
As a result, in the Linux world we need to have solid agreements with the companies behind the major distributions in order for it to be clear to customers that we do the tools and the distribution company does the OS support. We started with RedHat because they are the biggest and at no time did RedHat ever ask for an exclusive or exclusionary arrangement. In fact, RedHat's senior management has gone out of their way to make sure we knew they had no problem with us supporting other Linux distributions.
So the long and the short of it is that we have a business plan which is very clear, we need to support a lot of OSes for us to be successful. We have spent over $35 million dollars in R&D over the past five years mastering the technology issues which make this possible. We are big supporters of the open source community and in no way do we believe that our business strategy conflicts with it. We will support other distributions for Linux but it takes time to put all the product QA and agreements in place.
I hope this eases all concerns. If anyone has any further comments, or concerns please feel free to write directly to me at anytime. I will attempt to contact the author and clarify this misunderstanding.
Ron Liechty, MWRon@metrowerks.com Ombudsman for Metrowerks Corporation
>The code spat out by their codegen is highly inefficient. >Metrowerks tools were shipped with BeOS R3 x86.
Please go to our web page we have all the results there. Comparing 3 year old barely beta versions of our x86 CodeGenerating tools with anything is unfair.
Correct, CodeWarrior for Red Hat Linux is validated on Red Hat Linux Distribution but is not not restricted in any way.
The minimum requirement for Tech Support is Red Hat because that is what we have been validated on. We will add other distributors and there are no known reasons it won't work for any linux version.
>What is the _Real_ agreement between RedHat and Metrowerks...
We do in fact have a marketing agreement with Red Hat, however, Metrowerks is not restricted in any way to supporting only a Red Hat distribution. CodeWarrior has been validated on other distributions and we have not knowingly added any restrictions that limits it on any other Linux distributions. We started with RedHat because they are the biggest and at no time did RedHat ever ask for an exclusive or exclusionary arrangement. In fact, RedHat's senior management has gone out of their way to make sure we knew they had no problem with us supporting other Linux distributions.
The Metrowerks Public License (MWPL) is directly fashioned on the Mozilla license. Metrowerks believes that MWPL is 100% in conformity with the goals and objectives of the OpenSource Movement.
If you feel adjustments need to be made feel free to write directly to me.
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"Metrowerks has not discontinued its support for Linux tools. The Linux space is one of the fastest growing segments in the market, and we are
continually assessing our product strategy to best meet the needs of developers. As always, Metrowerks is committed to providing best-of-class
tools for multiple platforms."
Six weeks ago, Metrowerks launched CodeWarrior for RedHat Linux, GNU Edition. We do in fact have a marketing agreement with Red Hat, however, Metrowerks is not restricted in any way to supporting only a Red Hat distribution. CodeWarrior has been validated on other distributions and we have not knowingly added any restrictions that limits it on any other Linux distributions. How can you be assured this is in fact the case. I think our track record in other markets may be of interest in this regards.
Metrowerks supports many operating systems for desktop and embedded computing including Windows, Mac, Palm, PlayStation, Nintendo, QNX, etc. Our OS partners want us to be the best tools company there is, and they do not want us competing against them. So we go to great lengths to make sure all of our partners are comfortable with this. This does not mean we are restricted in any way and in fact, we have many situations where we support competing operating systems. For instance, we support Mac and Windows who compete every day in the market, and we also support all of the games console vendors. Our operating systems partners understand we need to support a lot of target OSes to make our business model work. They accept this as we do not compete with them directly.
As a result, in the Linux world we need to have solid agreements with the companies behind the major distributions in order for it to be clear to customers that we do the tools and the distribution company does the OS support. We started with RedHat because they are the biggest and at no time did RedHat ever ask for an exclusive or exclusionary arrangement. In fact, RedHat's senior management has gone out of their way to make sure we knew they had no problem with us supporting other Linux distributions.
So the long and the short of it is that we have a business plan which is very clear, we need to support a lot of OSes for us to be successful. We have spent over $35 million dollars in R&D over the past five years mastering the technology issues which make this possible. We are big supporters of the open source community and in no way do we believe that our business strategy conflicts with it. We will support other distributions for Linux but it takes time to put all the product QA and agreements in place.
I hope this eases all concerns. If anyone has any further comments, or concerns please feel free to write directly to me at anytime.
I will attempt to contact the author and clarify this misunderstanding.
Ron Liechty, MWRon@metrowerks.com
Ombudsman for Metrowerks Corporation
>The code spat out by their codegen is highly inefficient.
>Metrowerks tools were shipped with BeOS R3 x86.
Please go to our web page we have all the results there. Comparing 3 year old barely beta versions of our x86 CodeGenerating tools with anything is unfair.
Ron
> Saying that it is only REDHAT is wrong.
Correct, CodeWarrior for Red Hat Linux is validated on Red Hat Linux Distribution but is not not restricted in any way.
The minimum requirement for Tech Support is Red Hat because that is what we have been validated on. We will add other distributors and there are no known reasons it won't work for any linux version.
>What is the _Real_ agreement between RedHat and Metrowerks...
We do in fact have a marketing agreement with Red Hat, however, Metrowerks is not restricted in any way to supporting only a Red Hat distribution. CodeWarrior has been validated on other distributions and we have not knowingly added any restrictions that limits it on any other Linux distributions.
We started with RedHat because they are the biggest and at no time did RedHat ever ask for an exclusive or exclusionary arrangement. In fact, RedHat's senior management has gone out of their way to make sure we knew they had no problem with us supporting other Linux distributions.
The Metrowerks Public License (MWPL) is directly fashioned on the Mozilla license. Metrowerks believes that MWPL is 100% in conformity with the goals and objectives of the OpenSource Movement.
If you feel adjustments need to be made feel free to write directly to me.
MWRon@metrowerks.com