Green Hills Software strikes again

Posted May 4, 2004 18:06 UTC (Tue) by markhb (guest, #1003) [Link]

Of course they aren't running their OS on their web servers; it isn't designed for that at all. Look at their product pages; it's an embedded, real-time OS designed for things like running the onboard systems in Sikorsky helicopters. That's what makes this whole series of articles (and the responses to it on Slashdot, Groklaw, and now here on LWN) so ludicrous; Linux is a general-purpose OS, while Green Hills' product is designed for a narrow niche market. The military is not going to be buying an embedded OS and trying to port OpenOffice to it.

Of course, the converse would be interesting; I'd like to see RMS' face when he was told that the USAF was going to use the HURD as the onboard control OS for the Minuteman III.