Amazing news, congratulations! I'm very excited to see this happen.

-Davíð

On August 9, 2022 10:17:21 AM UTC, Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
>If you've been paying close attention recently, you'll have seen
>patches coming from a few different Unikie[1] email accounts.  In
>addition to contributing to Spectrum, Unikie has hired me to work on it.
>
>Unikie is interested in Spectrum for both desktop and embedded use.
>They're contracting for the TII Secure Systems Research Center[2],
>working on developing a Spectrum-based reference system.
>
>One thing they're currently working on is being able to run Spectrum on
>the i.MX8 development board, which means we'll hopefully see patches
>adding ARM and cross-compilation support to Spectrum in the near future.
>
>The first big thing I'll be working on for Unikie is finally integrating
>crosvm's support for graphical application VMs into Spectrum.
>
>While I'm working for Unikie, I plan to set aside any donations I
>receive for my Spectrum work, to be used for project expenses and
>funding Spectrum work from other people, rather than being used to pay
>for my general living expenses as has been the case up to now.
>
>And just to clarify: Spectrum has not been acquired or anything — I'm
>still leading the project, and Unikie has the same rights as any other
>contributor (copyright ownership of contributions, mostly).
>
>[1]: https://www.unikie.com/en/
>[2]: https://www.tii.ae/secure-systems