Microsoft recently posted a document on its website which compares Windows XP Embedded to Embedded Linux, in an attempt to portray Embedded Linux as inferior from both technical and business perspectives. Embedded Linux vendors have countered that Microsoft's document contains numerous inaccuracies and is based on distorted characterizations of the Embedded Linux operating system as well as of the vendors… of Embedded Linux.

The following is a response from LynuxWorks, one of the leading Embedded Linux vendors, to Microsoft's attack on Embedded Linux. Excerpts from Microsoft's document are in bold. The responses were prepared for publication at LinuxDevices.com by LynuxWorks senior executives.

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