This week at LWN: Wind River's John Bruggeman

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 5, 2008 1:42 PM EDT
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If you wanted a symbol of Linux's impact on the world of embedded systems, you could do worse than consider the edifying case of Wind River's Damascene conversion. Once one of free software's fiercest critics, today Wind River is a cheerleader for the benefits of open source, of sharing, and of giving back to the community. John Bruggeman is Wind River's Chief Marketing Officer. Here he talks to Glyn Moody about why you can't use any old Linux for embedded systems, the respective strengths and weaknesses of the Linux-based mobile platforms from the LiMo Foundation and Google's Android, and what effect Nokia's announcement that it would be open-sourcing the Symbian operating system will have on the sector.

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