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Wind River Announces It Likes Linux After All

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the love-isn't-always-on-time dept.

onecrazyfoo writes "Wind River is going to start supporting Linux in the embedded market. Pretty big news from the largest company in the embedded tools market. What makes it even more interesting is the fact that they have been very anti-Linux and outspoken about it in the past. You can read more about their announcement at LinuxDevices.com." I'm guessing this has come about because of recent changes in the company.

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  1. Well well well... by Skyshadow · · Score: 5, Funny
    ....look who came crawling back.

    Somebody direct these guys to the "Supplicants" door. =)

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    1. Re:Well well well... by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Interesting

      "it lets people change their minds when it becomes clear they can't fight the future."

      Can't fight the future, or did Linux finally reach maturity? There's a big difference between fighting it kicking and screaming and simply not being able to use it because there's things it wasn't able to do.

      Don't assume that everybody who avoids Linux is an idiot.

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  2. Pfft by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They're just doing like LynuxWorks former Lynx with their Blue Cat Linux. I have a strong suspicion that WindRiver just wants to profit from some of the Linux hype, given that, apart from the price, quite frankly, their OS and tool suites are just way better than any embedded Linux suite I've ever seen/worked on/worked with.

    It's just another company trying to jump on the Linux bandwagon. Nothing to see here folks ...

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  3. We should *not* consider this a good thing... by pla · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From the comments so far, I will presume most Slashdotters have no experience with WindRiver.

    Exercising great restraint to avoid writing anything they would likely sue me for (such as a factual tale of my experience dealing with them for over two years), I would just like to point out that we should not, in any way, consider this "good" news.

    Aside from their "quality" tools (the fixing of which I can thank for giving me a reason to learn Tcl), expect to hear about a GPL violation within a few weeks. And if they handle that accusation like they handle their customers' bug reports, well, good ol' Darl may start sounding fairly reasonable to deal with.

  4. Re:Formerly with FreeBSD Wind river? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is an actual question, wasn't Wind River one of the major contributors to the fantastic development work done on FreeBSD?

    Short version, no.

    Longer version: When BSDi fell on hard times around 4/2001, it was sold to Wind River. Many FreeBSD developers made the move. Shortly thereafter many major FreeBSD developers bailed to Apple. The vibe from the higher-ups was that BSD/OS was the "real" product at Wind River.

    Wind River are leeches. Don't expect them to contribute much, if anything.