Another area where Linux seems to be popular is the embedded market -- non-PC computers such as radar detectors or digital video recorders or handheld computers or in-car computers. Are you looking at any work in the embedded Linux market?
Most of our focus is really on the server and desktop market, but we do keep in touch with (DeviceForge's) Embedded Linux Forum and the CE Linux Forum.
You now employ Linus Torvalds, founder and leader of the Linux operating system, and Andrew Morton, who is clearly one of the key lieutenants, being in charge of the new 2.6 kernel. Can we expect any more high-profile programmers to come on board at OSDL?
As part of our mission to become the centre of gravity for Linux, I thought that it was very important that we do our fair share of work within the development community. We have some excellent kernel developers that work for us by adding Andrew and Linus. Obviously, it provides us leadership and advice and counsel.
We are not necessarily out recruiting people, because I believe that we are doing our fair share, but being independent, being vendor-neutral, being an open-source organisation -- those are things that are very attractive to the kernel developers. We are constantly getting interest from them about coming to work for us.
The OSDL name is Open Source Development Labs as opposed to the Linux Development Labs. Can we expect that you are going to be going into other areas of the open-source programming software collection -- for example, Web severs or office software?
Our focus is really on Linux and Linux-based applications. That is where the market interest is; that is where our customers want us to focus, and that is really where the exhilaration is.
