Ah yes, then the vendor goes out of business and they have to bring in highly paid consultants to fix bugs in the vendors' gcc 2.95/Linux 2.6.x port to their So

Ah yes, then the vendor goes out of business and they have to bring in highly paid consultants to fix bugs in the vendors' gcc 2.95/Linux 2.6.x port to their SoC. You need to be in the right kind of company - the one where waiting for the external vendor to fix their shit is too slow.