Actually the knowledges on the Linux side will sooner or later _OR_ more or less become public assets. The difficult part of almost every embedded project resides in the vendor specific portion. Like for davinci, it is not TCP/IP that causes confusions, it is the davincifb, resizer, dsplink, cmemk, codecs (etc) that frustrates people. With companies like greenhill, you are working at their mercy, pay or not.
--- On Fri, 5/16/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Anyone see this month's Embedded Systems Design? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Friday, May 16, 2008, 11:51 AM > On Fri, 16 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there any alternative to Linux? I can see none. > Montavista is not > sacred--as a matter of fact I personally don't like > it--but it is one of > almost infinite choices and do respect their work. Their > weakness grows > directly from their strength--they are trying to support > almost every CPU on > this planet that is capable of running Linux. It is mission > impossible but > it deserves highest respect. I don't think any company > on this planet > could've done better dealing with such an enormous > task. > > Yes, it is much easier to write and maintain a crippled > weirdo, limited in > every respect, for a couple of CPUs. But that is nothing to > be proud of > engineeringwise; it's several orders of magnitude > simpler task. Also it is > single vendor weirdo, without source code, with royalties > at every corner > and licence fees for every sneeze. It might be OK for those > who love > communism with its total absence of choice and relative and > very > questionable stability and simplicity. Linux, on the other > hand, is pure > capitalism at its very best--full freedom but much less > guarantees. All > those GPLx licences don't make it socialistic contrary > to popular belief and > to what all those commercial vendors are trying to make > people believe. It's > exactly the opposite. > > They are simply loosing that battle... And there is no a > single entity they > could sue :) > > > Green Hills goes medeval on linux (targeted directly > at Montavista) in > > this article: > > http://www.embedded.com/columns/guest/207402542 > > > > Montavista replies with this article: > > http://www.embedded.com/columns/guest/207602734 > > > > The sad thing is that our development team has had an > experience more > > similar to the first article, so there is some merit > to his blatently > > agenda driven view. > > Hopefully that will turn around in the near future... > > > > Regards, > > David > > > > DAVID A. KONDRAD > > Software Design Engineer > > On-Q/Legrand > > www.onqlegrand.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source > > > > --- > ****************************************************************** > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do > immediately. * > * Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require > 24-hour notice. * > ****************************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
