Misunderstanding of embedded system designers

Misunderstanding of embedded system designers

Posted Jan 18, 2006 16:34 UTC (Wed) by karim (subscriber, #114)
In reply to: Misunderstanding of embedded system designers by opennw
Parent article: GPLv3: a first look

I would love to be able to post a private exchange I had
with Richard a few years back, but it's private, so I
won't. But it does clearly demonstrate the inverse of
your first statement.

Frankly, and again I can't go into too much detail, it
looks pretty clear to me that the FSF's realization that
embedded systems are an issue is only recent, and that
there hasn't been as much contact between their efforts
and a community of embedded system developers (as opposed
to their involvement in many efforts which have to do
with workstations and servers) -- yes, I'm aware GCC has
been cross-compiling for a while, but that's different
than having the actual software run on the gizmo ...

Karim

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