I'm sure it will be good for the competition, and it will make more people interested in getting their applications to run on embedded devices. Ubuntu is generally good at contributing patches upstream and I'm sure this will give the GNOME Mobile And Embedded initiative an extra push. It's nice to see free and open software becoming more widespread on other devices than just PCs.
Unfortunately a lot of companies seem totally unable to see the benefits of external contributors. They don't even see the point in getting drivers into the mainline kernel. Just take a look at this response from Cirrus Logic regarding their ep93xx boards:
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I'm sure it will be good for the competition, and it will make more people interested in getting their applications to run on embedded devices. Ubuntu is generally good at contributing patches upstream and I'm sure this will give the GNOME Mobile And Embedded initiative an extra push. It's nice to see free and open software becoming more widespread on other devices than just PCs.
Definitely the first thing on my mind. I bet his business card says:
Don Judas - Backstabbing bigwig
Unfortunately a lot of companies seem totally unable to see the benefits of external contributors. They don't even see the point in getting drivers into the mainline kernel. Just take a look at this response from Cirrus Logic regarding their ep93xx boards:
- 2007/msg00026.html/
/C.M
http://www.freelists.org/archives/linux-cirrus/02
Looks like the in house coding team was bummed that Lennert Buytenhek did a better job on the port then their whole team. Ridiculous response!