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CAOS Theory for this link. ]
“Why is MIPS Technologies doing this? We can look
largely to its giant processor competition, Intel, which also
expanded its footprint in the embedded software and device market
with its $884m acquisition of Wind River in June 2009. The MIPS
move is also another instance of a hardware player becoming more
empowered and in control of its own destiny, devices and
applications by using open source software as the vehicle (which is
another big part of this market). As Linux and other open source
software and development free these vendors from the OS licensing,
roadmap and development constraints of proprietary software, we
should expect to see more of this kind of consolidation and
code.”