[parisc-linux] Puffin sells out!

[Eric Molitor]

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Reported in the Wall Street Journal Dec. 14, 1999, see
> > <http://www.linuxcare.com/company/press/1999/12-14-99_puffin.epl>.  It was
> > stated that the Puffin Group, a small group of Linux buffs who have been
> > helping Hewlett-Packard Co., is being purchased by Linuxcare Inc.  Alex
> > Devries and Christopher Beard will become directors within Linuxcare's
> > Professional Services Business Unit.
> > 
> > Is this the end?
> 
> That depends what the Puffingroup and HP folks want to do with the port. If
> its carrying on as an open public port and HP are willing to open all 
> their document access and like to other folks I dont see a problem. If they
> work tightly with LC/Puffingroup and trumpet them as their HP Linux porting
> heroes then yes its going to be hard for anyone else to justify working for
> them.
> 
> I doubt HP are dumb somehow. We'll see. Even if HP and LC do most of the
> running in their own private little world it doesnt change things like merging
> with the main kernel tree and working with folks to sort out interfaces and 
> the like.
> 
> Alan