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Subject: Re: walnut creek cd rom
From: Kelly Hall <khall@acm.org>
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:36:10 GMT
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Bill Vermillion wrote:

WindRiver builds embedded systems and based a lot on BSDI and they
bought that group to get some proprietary things from what I
undestand.   Wind River has recently moved to Linux.  They appear
to be quite large in the embedded worlds.  See their site.

More likely WR bought them to hedge their bets on the march of free *nixsystems into the high-end embedded market. I don't think it worked forthem. The best part of WR's wasted money is that it moved lots of BSDIdevelopers into the FreeBSD camp.


Kelly

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