Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 19:33:50 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Eric, you were right! Message-ID: <3B47B87E.78068C23@softweyr.com> References: <3B44C80C.FF06D16C@Silver-Lynx.com> <20010705220738.J327@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <3B471B61.23937991@Silver-Lynx.com>
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Don Wilde wrote:
>
> Isn't it though? Wind River survives in the embedded world because their
> software is so pricey the government thinks it must be worth something,
> and therefore we Americans have the privilege of paying for it with our
That's a little over the top. Wind River survives in the embbedded
world because they provide products and support that outshine those
of all their competitors. That may say something about the quality
of their competitors that is uncomfortable to contemplate.
Wind River has, I'm certain, experienced a lot of pressure from the
various embedded Linux vendors. Embedded Linux offers a lot of
functionality at a very low price point, and draws from a large
base of relatively knowlegable programmers; it has all the same
advantages I outlined for embedded BSD systems in a Daemon's Advocate
column a couple of years ago. Depending on your viewpoint, it may
or may not have a disadvantage in the licensing.
Give WRS credit for at least seeing the value in providing embedded
BSD systems as an alternative to their customers looking for a more
functional (and less real-time) embedded system.
If WRS, BSD/Linux Central, or anyone else are not meeting our needs,
we simply need to steer the FreeBSD Project in another direction.
Please join us in discussing how best to do that, rather than deriding
the company who is currently struggling to meet our demands for goods
and services. They're pretty new at this kind of volume, you know. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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