On corporate PR and proper credit [LWN.net]

On corporate PR and proper credit

Posted Aug 2, 2005 22:21 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)
Parent article: On corporate PR and proper credit

From the bottom of their realtime products page:

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Open Source Contributions
MontaVista Software open sourced a working prototype of the real-time kernel in October 2004. Since then, Ingo Molnar has adopted and taken over maintenance of this project. MontaVista Software has continuously contributed to this project. On June 8, 2005, MontaVista open sourced an enhancement to the interrupt sub-system facilitating deterministic interrupt response. This enhancement was subsequently incorporated into the preempt real-time project maintained by Molnar.

Some key contributors to the overall real-time effort include (alphabetically):

* Ingo Molnar (maintainer)
* Sven Dietrich
* K. R. Foley
* Thomas Gleixner
* Gene Heskett
* Bill Huey
* Paul McKenney

* Esben Nielsen
* Nick Piggin
* Lee Revell
* Steven Rosted
* Michal Schmidt
* Daniel Walker
* Karsten Weise
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On corporate PR and proper credit

Posted Aug 2, 2005 22:24 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Interesting. I don't believe that was there before - I looked hard for it. Maybe some of the grief I gave their PR person carried through. We need an internet archive with sub-hour resolution...:)

This is a step in the right direction anyway, and a good thing.

On corporate PR and proper credit

Posted Aug 2, 2005 22:47 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

I imagine it wasn't there. I'm going to guess that 90% of PR people hired by OSS companies require "orientation" regarding how things work in OSS, and what is considered acceptable, and what is considered an inexcusable insult.

Honest mistake, I suspect.

Less than two hours to fix the problem after it's pointed out is not too bad.

If Montavista's security advisory response time is this good...

Posted Aug 3, 2005 0:45 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

...then I'd consider them a first-preference vendor.

Thanks Jon for raising the bug, and thanks to Montavista's publicity people for correcting the error so quickly.

(I guess the text of a web page doesn't need quite as much integration and testing before deployment as, say, a major rewrite of the kernel's synchronisation primitives :-)