Knight,
I'm no expert in embedded Linux, but I did find this article on embedded Linux on EETimes. Below is WIND's contribution to the article.
Linux deals rock the RTOS status quo
eet.com
"While acknowledging that Wind River Systems Inc. has supported open-source — contributing to the GNU debugger and GNU cross-compiler — John Fogelin, Wind River's vice president of technology, questioned whether the model can support diverse processor architectures and system needs.
"I think there's a real question as to [whether] open-source can find a home here in the embedded market, because of the lack of commonality and therefore the lack of common goals for the open-source community to rally around," Fogelin said.
Another issue is licensing, he said. A key question — and one, Fogelin said, that has dogged the embedded market from day one — is whether aspects of the intellectual property are better supported by a vendor or a user community.
"The embedded market is inherently fragmented, and therefore does not lend itself to being supported by a community-based open-source development process," he said. "One way or another, in the embedded market you really must invest in unique technology, because the needs are truly individualized. Innovation really does cost money, [whether] people do it themselves [or] vendors develop it for them."
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JC. |
