alt wrote:
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>> There is at least one recent survey which proved closed embedded systems
>> get replaces by open ones.
>
> Sometimes it goes the other way. Linksys moved their WRT54G product from
> Linux to Wind River (I think) after they were forced to release the GPL'd
> software.
No, they did it because they needed a little less RAM then. But it seems it
was a bad decision, since the WRT54G is reported to be unreliable.
Later they brought the WRT54GL version, which was (again) running linux
--
"The number of Unix installations has grown to ten, with more expected"
-- The Unix programmers handbook, 1972
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