Around February 2010 the domain and control of the old site passed hands from the original owner, Steve Ravet, to the much-less-well-meaning B&G. In February of this year, 2011, I had an exchange with Bruce Bowling on the diy-efi.org main mailing list. He "called my bluff" and in response I posted videos and other evidence of the success of the FreeEMS project.
The discussion, and all evidence of it, was deleted from the archives!
A few days ago I sent an email to the list with the following contents:
Title: "FreeEMS XGATE Powered Sequential On LT1 V8!"
I just resent it, no luck, yet again.Sean has been hard at work creating ASM XGATE firmware for FreeEMS in order to expand our pin count from 6 up to something like 36 and allow sequential staged injection and coil on plug in large cylinder count engines. This video is assembled from a bunch of clips that he sent me yesterday. I'm not sure why he sent that last clip, when I got to that point of confidence in FreeEMS I sold my MS2 for 400nzd, this seems wasteful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9OEEOmsVHk
This was made possible by Sean's XGATE binutils package which was developed more or less in parallel with James Murray's XGATE binutils, because James would not release his changes for a long long time. Full credit to Sean for this achievement (both the tools and the firmware)! I take my hat off to him :-)
Enjoy!
Fred.
EDIT: This time it did work, which is strange. Also, the older one shows in the archives, but was not sent to various people who are on the list. Just dropped. Weird. We'll see how long it lasts in the archives, I guess. This aside, the other discussion was and still is removed, which was definitely censorship, yuck.
The original time was in close proximity to another thread sent by another member, indicating that the server was up and functional. These facts lead me to believe that either my email or the word FreeEMS has been filtered from this list.
The overall effect of this is that the list is now being censored. I will put that in large type below, because the rest of the site clearly indicates Free (Libre and Gratis) Open Source sentiments!
"A word about projects: A new policy has been adopted regarding projects, licenses, and the DIY_EFI list. New projects from this point forward that are discussed on list will either be released under the GNU GPL or LGPL, or will fall into the category of "commercial products". Projects that are stored on the DIY_EFI server must be released under a GNU license."
From: http://diy-efi.org/diy_efi/ as at 8 September 2011.
It's also worth noting that the site still suggests that Steve is running it. This has not been true for over a year, as noted above. Unlike the removal of discussions on FreeEMS and filtering of emails, I doubt this is malicious, just a lack of time put into it.
So, in bold large type for all to read:Maintained by Steve Ravet, sravet@diy-efi.org
WARNING: diy-efi.org (with the hyphen) is CENSORED and can NO LONGER be trusted!!!
This forum is now your only source of free technical discussion on general diy efi projects. Sad but true.
Fred.