In this line of work there are often things you can’t say. You just can’t go around talking about what our customers do with MontaVista Linux. Like I couldn’t possibly talk about the smile I get on my face when the chock-full-of-MontaVista-goodness high speed 3G cellular data network delivers packets to my <insert the name of the absurdly popular phone>. Can’t talk about that.

A few LinuxDevices.com articles will show you what other folks have said, though. Over on linux.com read up about how RipCode is helping MySpace to deliver video using MontaVista Linux.

Or you can read about how seven new MontaVista powered LiMo based phones were announced.

[Note… I don’t have a problem directly linking to LinuxDevices.com… maybe they’ll return the favor the next time they mention my blog!]

I stared with MontaVista back in 2000. Long time ago. I spent all my time answering questions about what Linux was, why open source wasn’t communism, and how someday our erstwhile competitors would come to regret the FUD they spread about Linux. Now a days I get to go to Best Buy and point out MontaVista powered products all over the place.

It makes me smile not because of some corporate dominance game. It makes me smile bcause I was part of this fight in the war for open source ascendancy and we won it. Reading Cuong Nguyen of RipCode say “We only considered Linux” makes me smile and would make me smile even if they weren’t our customers.

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