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Panasonic Forms Embedded Linux Incubator

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the more-corporations-on-the-bandwagon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Panasonic has opened an embedded Linux incubator in Silicon Valley, where it hopes to host and collaborate with several Linux startups, in exchange for 'first right-of-refusal on up to 10 percent of the startup's next institutional funding round'. From the article: 'Panasonic uses other open sources OSes in addition to Linux, but Linux has become a top choice due to its cost-effectiveness and robust nature,' according to the Center's director. Panasonic is in the same corporate family as Matsushita, which is one of the founding members of the Consumer Electronics Linux Foundation (CELF)."

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  1. In other news by benja · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft has opened a Linux-on-the-desktop incubator, which hopes to host, fund and collaborate with several of the most inventive desktop Linux startups, in exchange for first right-of-refusal of the products going to market.

  2. Embedded Linux Incubator? by eglass1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably a good choice; embedded Linux can keep eggs twice as warm as WinCE, from what I hear.

  3. Linux on an incubator! by strider44 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow! They run Linux on anything nowadays!

    1. Re:Linux on an incubator! by BlueTrin · · Score: 2, Funny

      Here are the first pictures from Panasonic

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      Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
  4. Linux Incubator by EnsilZah · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, but does it hatch pinguins?