History of RTEMS

[Mark Johannes]

Angelo,

We at OAR long embraced the open source paradigm through the use of the 
GNU tools in the development of RTEMS and our many other projects prior 
to making RTEMS open source itself.  It was a natural fit to release 
RTEMS as open source to leverage the environment that promotes the 
further development and utilization of the product.  However, we are 
still trying to understand and shape the open source business model to 
fit our needs, but have been doing well to date.  We would like to do 
better to continue the maturation of RTEMS and to provide quality 
professional services to its user base.  Offering support, training, and 
engineering services for those that use the RTEMS environment has been 
our way of supporting the continued maintenance of RTEMS.  We will be 
offering CD-ROM distributions shortly and have other plans in the works.

If you and your companies have any suggestions on how OAR can meet the 
needs of the RTEMS community better please forward them to me 
(mark.johannes at oarcorp.com or sales at oarcorp.com).  We thank everybody 
for their involvement and support and accept constructive criticism 
along with praise at anytime.

If we can answer any further questions, please contact me or any of the 
RTEMS staff.

Regards,

Mark Johannes
VP, Technology
OAR

Angelo Fraietta wrote:

> The timeline is great, however, I was after reasons why RTEMS became open
> source and free to the public.  Why wasn't / isn't  it sold instead of given
> away?
> 
> Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
>> Angelo Fraietta wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there a URL that has the History of how RTEMS came to be?
>> 
>> There is not a full history at this point in time.  I
>> did a timeline for this:
>> 
>> http://www.estec.esa.nl/CONFANNOUN/00e09/index.html
>> 
>> and the presentations (including mine) are at:
>> 
>> ftp://ftp.estec.esa.nl/pub/ws/opensource/OpenSourceSeminar.htm
>> 
>> I condensed the timeline down to 2 dense slides (5 and 6).
>> This is derived from Army project reports and CVS log. If
>> you think something major in RTEMS is missing, feel free
>> to comment.  I had a dream of a clickable graphic timeline
>> with more information per year but that would have taken
>> too much effort. :)
>> 
>> This presentation has other information which might be of
>> use to you.  Please feel free to ask questions and post
>> your presentation. :)
>> 
>>> --
>>> Angelo Fraietta
>>> 
>>> PO Box 859
>>> Hamilton NSW 2303
>>> 
>>> Home Page
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge - that is
>>> CURIOSITY
>>> There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others - that is
>>> VANITY
>>> There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve - that is LOVE
>>>     Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153)
>> 
>> --
>> Joel Sherrill, Ph.D.             Director of Research & Development
>> joel at OARcorp.com                 On-Line Applications Research
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> 
> 
> --
> Angelo Fraietta
> 
> PO Box 859
> Hamilton NSW 2303
> 
> Home Page
> 
> http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~maaaf/
> 
> There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge - that is
> CURIOSITY
> There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others - that is VANITY
> There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve - that is LOVE
>     Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153)
> 
> 

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