Re:Developers Are Their Customers (Score 1)

There's little bickering at the open source community level between WR and MV -- the engineers and management teams believe in getting useful fixes back into community mainstream source, if for no other reason than to reduce the size of their patchsets they have to maintain, and because it's good for credibility and the community. MV and WR are going after the same customers, who want a common feature set. It's good for embedded application developer customers to have a choice of distros (MV, WR, TimeSys, roll-your-own), since each has different licensing, QA methodologies, chip vendor relationships, development services teams, toolchain and toolset support. In the end each embedded Linux distro vendor will have successes and the whole ecosystem of Linux embedded applications AND the open source community will thrive.