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It's official: Google announces open-source mobile phone OS, Android (ars technica)It's official: Google announces open-source mobile phone OS, Android (ars technica)Posted Nov 7, 2007 19:24 UTC (Wed) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)In reply to: It's official: Google announces open-source mobile phone OS, Android (ars technica) by k8to Parent article: It's official: Google announces open-source mobile phone OS, Android (ars technica)
Wind River spread FUD about embedded Linux for years while it was slowly taking market share from VxWorks. Now they've given in to the inevitable, but I would hardly see them as enthusiastic Linux supporters.
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It's official: Google announces open-source mobile phone OS, Android (ars technica) Posted Nov 8, 2007 1:32 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] I was one of the people who ported Tornado to Linux. A royal pain in the days of redhat 6.0. If you look at what WRS actually said, they were talking about the issue of linking proprietary code with GPL code, which *really* does not fly for lots of embedded vendors. I love open source, I release stuff I develop myself as open source, and I believe it is ultimately essential for software infrastructure. However, it is not always appropriate, and for single-image designs on limited hardware, the GPL is a real embedded space issue. This is what WRS talked about and it was not FUD it is a practical concern. What turned out to be the case was: the embedded market got less embedded, and single-image became the exception not the rule.
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