Gerph was looking inside the RISC OS5 kernel. Note THIS has NOTHING to do with the RISC OS4 kernel.
they are different trees of the original code from acorn. Anyway back to the story:-
he thought the code looked familiar oncce compilled and suggested to castle that it MAY have came from thelinux kernel. AND trust me Justin knows a LOT about the RISC OS4 kernel. But I wont go ito that, although it is public knowledge. He is a good bloke by all accounts. After not being entirely satisfied, and following muck soul seeking, he mentioned to Russel about his concernes an russel posted to the kernel mail list.
All of this was justified.
What I dont think is justified is the "what if brigade" jumping on "roumour and hearsay".
my understanding of the scenario is this:-
CAstle want a HAL to rid RISC OS of its hardware dependence. They probably tought, OK linux is hardware independent, lets have a look at how they did it?
Ahh that was clever, they might have thought; lets see if we can code someting similar to do the job for us. Naturaly the code seems similar but not identical and threrfore looked as if it was developed upon.
I think taking the code and developing it would be silly, and castle are NOT silly. When other companies were promissing this-and-that, they quietly delivered.
They naturally fed on a similar idea, but then most songs can trace their idea back for years.
I think they may haev fed on the theme, (boy meets girl) but not nessesarily the blagged the tune.
As a bit of background. I write PDA SW and like the RISC OS platform but these days I dont get the software to do my work on RISC OS. I dop however, miss the beautiful OS.
And as for the chap that said X-scale? it does not have grunt; well I say, whoneeds grunt when you can get a wordXP compatable word processor on one floppy and running on 800K in full mode.
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that should have been "MUCH soul seeking" Sorry Justin. It could have read so differently. :-)))
Cheers
bob
Well the scenario is this.
Gerph was looking inside the RISC OS5 kernel. Note THIS has NOTHING to do with the RISC OS4 kernel.
they are different trees of the original code from acorn.
Anyway back to the story:-
he thought the code looked familiar oncce compilled and suggested to castle that it MAY have came from thelinux kernel. AND trust me Justin knows a LOT about the RISC OS4 kernel. But I wont go ito that, although it is public knowledge. He is a good bloke by all accounts. After not being entirely satisfied, and following muck soul seeking, he mentioned to Russel about his concernes an russel posted to the kernel mail list.
All of this was justified.
What I dont think is justified is the "what if brigade" jumping on "roumour and hearsay".
my understanding of the scenario is this:-
CAstle want a HAL to rid RISC OS of its hardware dependence. They probably tought, OK linux is hardware independent, lets have a look at how they did it?
Ahh that was clever, they might have thought; lets see if we can code someting similar to do the job for us. Naturaly the code seems similar but not identical and threrfore looked as if it was developed upon.
I think taking the code and developing it would be silly, and castle are NOT silly. When other companies were promissing this-and-that, they quietly delivered.
They naturally fed on a similar idea, but then most songs can trace their idea back for years.
I think they may haev fed on the theme, (boy meets girl) but not nessesarily the blagged the tune.
As a bit of background. I write PDA SW and like the RISC OS platform but these days I dont get the software to do my work on RISC OS. I dop however, miss the beautiful OS.
And as for the chap that said X-scale? it does not have grunt; well I say, whoneeds grunt when you can get a wordXP compatable word processor on one floppy and running on 800K in full mode.
Cheers
Bob; Sunny Scotland