While it might not be fair these days, Wind River in the past have certainly issued their fair share of anti Linux FUD.
Certainly, when I was at Wind River, the prevailing attitude of the management at the time was that Linux was 'tainted' because of the GPL.
There used to be be a bunch of white papers on the Wind River web site by the then VP of Marketing, Curt Shacker - unfortunately they appear not to exist anymore, although some references to them exist to them from linuxdevices.com:
Except they didn't - not until recently anyway. I wouldn't say they 'embraced' Linux, so much as bowed to the inevitable.
There used to be some white papers on the Wind River web site with all sorts of anti-linux views, and for a long time, the prevailing attitude was that linux was 'tainted'...
Yes - RedHat 8 went on flawlessly onto my GR214, and the only problem I had was getting the driver working for my PCMCIA wireless network adapter - and that wasn't the laptop's fault.
At the beginning of the year, my VAIO failed and I phoned Sony - within two days, my laptop had been picked up by the courier and shipped to the european repair center. Got it back, fixed within a week.
Ok, I'll bite - here's some (probably out of date) death / injury tolls caused by terrorism in the UK to date:
"Over 3,280 people have been killed and over 36,000 injured since 1969 as a result of terrorist campaigns. Over 900 members of the police and Army have been murdered."
Source - UK Government web site. That number is not too far off the WTC toll, and probably accounts for a lot of incidents...
It's even older than that - I remember some old spectrum games (by codemasters IIRC) that let you play some little games while still loading from the cassette...
But surely if you have a box in the attic (as I have) with a lot of the older games, you're not in breach of copyright if you download and play one of the games *you own* on an emulator?
Garry.
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While it might not be fair these days, Wind River in the past have certainly issued their fair share of anti Linux FUD.
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Certainly, when I was at Wind River, the prevailing attitude of the management at the time was that Linux was 'tainted' because of the GPL.
There used to be be a bunch of white papers on the Wind River web site by the then VP of Marketing, Curt Shacker - unfortunately they appear not to exist anymore, although some references to them exist to them from linuxdevices.com:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9161119242
Except they didn't - not until recently anyway. I wouldn't say they 'embraced' Linux, so much as bowed to the inevitable.
There used to be some white papers on the Wind River web site with all sorts of anti-linux views, and for a long time, the prevailing attitude was that linux was 'tainted'...
Yes - RedHat 8 went on flawlessly onto my GR214, and the only problem I had was getting the driver working for my PCMCIA wireless network adapter - and that wasn't the laptop's fault.
At the beginning of the year, my VAIO failed and I phoned Sony - within two days, my laptop had been picked up by the courier and shipped to the european repair center. Got it back, fixed within a week.
Not bad in my experience.
"Over 3,280 people have been killed and over 36,000 injured since 1969 as a result of terrorist campaigns. Over 900 members of the police and Army have been murdered."
Source - UK Government web site. That number is not too far off the WTC toll, and probably accounts for a lot of incidents...
It's even older than that - I remember some old spectrum games (by codemasters IIRC) that let you play some little games while still loading from the cassette...
But surely if you have a box in the attic (as I have) with a lot of the older games, you're not in breach of copyright if you download and play one of the games *you own* on an emulator? Garry.