“Indrema CEO John Gildred met with curious enthusiasts on
IRC last night to discuss the end of his company and the future of
the code and hardware design originally intended for the
next-generation Linux game console. Not all of the software
designed for the system will be released to the open source
community.“
“According to Gildred, the decision was made to close shop last
Friday in the face of an investor’s market that couldn’t provide
upwards of $10 million to keep the company alive. He said the
company will release the last of its employees by the end of this
week.”
“Of no small curiosity on the part of many watching the project
was the disposition of the code developed for the platform’s
software development kit, called the IESDK. The kit, currently at
version 0.3, was to include a variety of technologies including
well-known open standards OpenAL and OpenGL in addition to a
complete Linux distribution for the console (DV Linux), a
game-oriented implementation of XFree86 extended to include calls
to a digital rights management (DRM) layer running on the console
the company dubbed XTrema, and a video streaming technology called
OpenStream.”
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