Wind River Partners With Red Hat On Embedded Linux

An anonymous reader writes "According to LinuxDevices: 'Calling embedded Linux and VxWorks 'the standards in device software development,' Wind River today announced a dual operating system strategy that adds a newly developed embedded Linux distribution -- Red Hat Embedded Linux -- alongside its proprietary VxWorks real-time operating system.'"

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Re:Business plan du jour

[Anonymovs Coward]

Indeed, Wind River had bought BSDi, which had earlier bought Walnut Creek and acquired close ties with FreeBSD; thus quite a few FreeBSD developers ended up working with Wind River. But the honeymoon didn't last long... I have no idea what went wrong. But even now they claim ownership of the BSD, BSD/OS and FreeBSD trademarks... There has been a long-term plan for the FreeBSD Foundation to get control of the trademark, but I don't know where that's at.

Bah. Windriver is the SCO of the embedded world.

[Anonymous Coward]

While it's great that Windriver is finally starting to throw in the towel on proprietary Embedded OS's, these guys have made enough bad moves in the embedded space to leave a sour impression in the minds of a lot of people.

They've got lots of crappy, overpriced proprietary software, and to boot they've tried stealing as much from Open Source software as they could get away with. I look forward to seeing them actually contribute something to the community, but I'm not holding my breath. I suspect they'll be like many of the other big names in the embedded space, who are mostly trying to tie people into their own platforms. I am pleased that I can finally tell the snooty VxWorks developers whom I've argued with over the years "I told you so", though. :)