Tim Sullivan reports on the Embedded Linux Consortium's Second Annual Meeting held at the Embedded Systems Conference last week. Writing for embedded.com, Sullivan offers a complete rundown of meeting highlights . . .

” . . . At its most recent technical meeting, the consortium unveiled an intellectual property (IP) agreement that will govern any IP it creates. This agreement, board members said, paves the way for a standard embedded Linux specification. The ELC believes such a standard is the key to the future of Linux in the world of embedded systems.”

” . . . based on Linux's remarkable growth in recent times and the amorphous nature of the embedded appliance market, the embedded Linux community is facing an opportunity that must be aggressively pursued.”

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