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Originally Posted by brianelite
Wind River is/was a billion dollar company. I highly doubt their software is written by "volunteers".
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Wind River never quite made it to a billion dollar company before being acquired by Intel.
In fact, while they aspired to that for a long time, they fell short by a lot.
More like a 1/4 billion.
Anyway, the Wind River GNU compiler and, for a very long time, their network code actually had been largely written by volunteers.
Edit: the blurb about volunteers is in no way intended to denigrate Wind River.
Wind River's pervasive presence in the embedded systems arena, and the resultant scrutiny brought to bear on the GNU tools, contributed significantly to the quality of those tools.