CNET News: Wind River Warms to Open-Source Groups

“Wind River Systems, an operating system specialist that decided
to embrace Linux rather than fight it, announced Monday that it has
joined two prominent open-source groups.

“The Alameda, Calif.-based company joined the Open Source
Development Labs (OSDL), which develops and promotes Linux, and the
Eclipse Consortium, an open-source project launched by IBM to
develop better programming tools.

“Joining the groups, which each work on software that directly
competes with products from Wind River, shows the extent of the
company’s commitment to Linux. Until October, when Wind River
released programming tools for Linux, the company shunned Linux in
favor of its proprietary VxWorks operating system used in
’embedded’ computing devices such as nerve gas detectors and wind
turbines…”

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