[cap-talk] CapROS development

[Charles Landau]

At 12:49 AM -0800 2/21/08, Jed Donnelley wrote:
>At 08:07 PM 2/20/2008, Bill Frantz wrote:
>
>>I am now working with Charles Landau, trying to bring EROS/CapROS
>>to the level of development that KeyKOS achieved over 15 years ago.
>>While this version won't be free, it's GPL after all, at least it
>>will be open, and available to anyone who wants to use or develop
>>it.
>
>Bill,
>
>Could you tell us a bit more about the above work?  What do you
>see as the market for this work?  When you say it won't be
>free, who will you be selling it to and how?  Do you have any
>sales literature?

CapROS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CapROS) is free, as required by 
GPL, though applications developed for CapROS may not be free. Right 
now it is in a development phase, not a marketing phase. The current 
DARPA contract calls for demonstrating the system on the ARM 
processor in a home automation application. I see a market in home 
automation because it requires integrating devices and software from 
many sources, allowing them to cooperate without vulnerability.