[ Thanks to LinuxDevices.com for this link.
]
“Jim Ready, founder and CEO of MontaVista Software, is renowned
as a pioneer in the real-time and embedded operating systems
market. He co-founded Ready Systems in 1980, the company that
developed VRTX, the embedded computer industry’s first popular
commercial real-time kernel. In this interview, LinuxDevices.com
founder Rick Lehrbaum asks Jim about his views on the embedded
Linux market in general and about MontaVista Software’s plans and
strategies….”
“RL: How do you plan to be successful in a market based on
royalty free, open-source software?“
“Jim: Our strategy is simple: we will provide 100% pure Linux,
and without runtime royalties. You might say, our motto is to
‘learn to live in the Linux world _and_ prosper’. We think it’s
very possible to have a healthy business model based on Linux
without resorting to a licensing approach, contrary to what some
companies are doing. Basically, we don’t want to kill the goose
that laid the golden egg.”
LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.
Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2025 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved
Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.