“George Weiss, vice president of research at analyst
GartnerGroup, points out that Torvalds seems to have very little
control over the final product.
‘It is a very proprietary product and all the rights are
reserved by Transmeta. That state of play is a long way away from
the great spirit of Linux open source philosophy,’ he said.
Transmeta will not even allow its customers access to the
software code so that they can configure it for themselves. Crusoe
comes pre-configured for Windows or Linux.”
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