Re: Small footprint RTOS for embedded system

On 2008-01-09, John Devereux <jdREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

commerial use. It can be downloaded at www.micrium.com. At
the commercial price it is very close to free unless you think
you can duplicate it in under a week (see VLV in this thread).

It appears to be several thousand dollars *per product*, i.e.
you have to pay again for each project you use it on. While
this may still be value for money (I don't know), I don't
think it can be described as "very close to free".

If you look at the actual development costs for most embedded
systems, then yes, it can be described as "very close to free".

Especially since there *are* totally, actually free
alternatives (and this was what the OP asked for).

FreeRTOS and XMK are two that come to mind:

http://www.freertos.org/
http://www.shift-right.com/xmk/

IIRC, they both impose requirements that you offer to supply
source code to your customers.

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