“In an opinion piece for Embedded.com, Green Hills Software CEO
Dan O’Dowd has resumed his crusade against embedded Linux–with a
new twist. O’Dowd argues that recent marketing by commercial Linux
distro vendors MontaVista and Wind River prove that they agree that
embedded Linux is ‘chaos.’“In the article, entitled ‘Embedded Linux: With friends like
these, who needs enemies?’ O’Dowd, whose company makes the
Integrity separation kernel and real-time operating system (RTOS),
suggests that by spreading FUD about DIY Linux, the leading Linux
distro vendors are actually proving that their underlying embedded
Linux technology is deeply flawed…”
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