🚀 go-pugleaf

Some people have apparently gotten the misleading impression that I
intend, at some point, on distributing a 4.3 port for the pc532. I'm
sorry if I gave that impression, but this is simply not the case.

My earlier "call for a consortium" among UNIX developers was aimed
strictly at banding together that small group of folk (less than 5% of the
pc532 owners, I'd say) who are bent on going their own way, for whatever
reason. The majority of you seem to be happy enough to go along with
Dave in his efforts to get SYSV, which I applaud and hope succeed, and that
is fine.  A mainstream UNIX for the pc532 will also further legitimize the
machine and encourage further hardware development, which we need.
I, however, will never run SYSV on my pc532 and cannot benefit
(at least not directly) from these efforts. I don't want to start a
religious war here, but I really cannot conceive of running SYSV while
I have a shred of choice in the matter. I, quite simply, loath it to the
core. Why? Well, maybe it's because I cannot count the number of hours of
my life I have wasted fighting to port various BSD applications to SYSV
or going through the agonizing process of trying to get useful work done
in a single-terminal environment without job control. I'm sorry, but I will
not willingly subject myself to further aggravation along these lines. That
would be masochistic.

I know that these are strong opinions, and I'll probably get flamed for them
(which is fine, but please, not on the list), but I guess I've just had it
up-to-here with what seems to be the pervasive "we've got SYSV running,
what more do you want" attitude that the major hardware vendors have taken
(for what I am sure are very good, sound, business reasons, but I can hate
them just the same).

Sorry, I guess I didn't mean to froth at the mouth quite so much,
but my spleen has needed venting for a long time.. :-)

In any case, the license we have here is a research / commercial license
which allows us to port to new hardware, and I am sort of trying to
work under this (admittedly shakey) umbrella. If worse comes to worse,
I will try and get it more fully declared as an official project. This still
does not allow me to ever redistribute so much as one byte of binary
code, and I do not intend (nor did I ever intend) to do so. I am not
trying to supplant Dave's efforts by any means, I would simply like to
get in touch with that small pc532 faction that also has access to
source and can perhaps share diffs/helpful hints in relation to a pc532
port.

I hope that this clears everything up. (God, I hate this legal $@#%$#@!!).

					Jordan