Damascene Code

There's nothing quite like a Road to Damascus conversion when it comes to generating passionate advocates. Just as Saul the arch-oppressor became Saint Paul the arch-propagator, so Wind River, once the most vocal of GNU/Linux's opponents in the embedded space, has become one of its biggest supporters. Its latest move is the most dramatic: a donation of 300,000 lines of code to the Eclipse Foundation.

What this shows is that the move to openness, however much born of desperation in the face of GNU/Linux's ineluctable rise in the embedded systems market, has clearly worked, and that Wind River is now a True Believer.