Hyundai Joins the Linux Foundation To Embrace AGL's Open Source Connected Car Tech (venturebeat.com) 38
Hyundai has become the latest car company to explore serious open source alternatives for developing its in-car services. From a report: Ahead of CES 2019, the South Korean automotive giant today announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation and the nonprofit's seven-year-old Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) effort as it looks to contribute to -- and reap benefit from -- software developed by over 140 companies. For Hyundai, open collaboration is crucial as it pursues a "connected car vision," Paul Choo, VP and head of Infotainment Technology Center at Hyundai, said in a statement. Car companies have traditionally taken three years or longer to develop in-vehicle services, such as infotainment systems. The bottleneck usually lies in the quality of code their in-house programmers create. According to a case study published by AGL, a connected car uses some 100 million lines of code, which is about 11 times more than the number that went into the F-35 fighter jet. Getting on AGL's bandwagon would also help Hyundai speed up development of its in-car technologies.
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Re: Goodbye Linux (Score:5, Interesting)
Mostly it's about self protection for companies that have no intention of abiding by the GPL or any of the other OSL variants.
Look at Microsoft...and VMWare. Both are violators. Both sit on the board of the Linux foundation. Notice no punitive actions for their violations have been forthcoming for several years...
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Go pick shit off your foot and eat it.
Sorry? Did you have a point? Mr. "Anonymous Coward"?
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Are there cars available not manufactured by corporations?
You could build a kit car yourself from plans, if you can weld and machine. But it will probably suck, unless you're great at both.
Re:Goodbye Linux (Score:5, Interesting)
That is what they said 22 years ago. When the likes of Oracle, and IBM started to put their support behind Linux.
Linux's popularity is strongly related to the big companies who are standing behind it and supporting it.
Today it is nearly impossible to try to go at it alone.
Think of BeOS and NeXT. It is a two way partnership where the popularity (and general name recognition) of the big businesses supports the OS, while the big business gets a team of developers who are willing to give them support for low cost, the OS also gets a team of developers from these companies willing to do a lot of support work, while the big companies get their priorities, prioritized.
Good model (Score:1)
For paying developers working on large projects, also for paying standards bodies for developing IPC or protocols that the developers both supplant and work with.
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That was over 20 years ago since they stopped making the Excel. Now they are one of the higher rated for reliability and rank about the same as Honda. Things change. All American brands are at the bottom. Including Tesla at the rock bottom. Can't really judge something by your experience in the 90's.
Man pages (Score:5, Funny)
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The tech manual will be automatically installed on your smartphone when you buy or rent the car.
So which car model will once and for all (Score:2)
officially start the Year Of Linux :)
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Have you not seen how much they charge for those "slightly modified from standards" displays? Google what it would cost to replace the radio console in your car, and you will have the answer to why they don't want to loose the revenue stream.
Remember, they're not designing this for you or I, who can hack in an aftermarket solution. They just want to make things a little inconvenient for the masses who would rather pony up the money.
Makes sense (Score:2)
Modern cars are increasingly complex things with many subsystems, network connectivity, over the air updates, telematics, driver assistance, HUDs, entertainment systems, message buses etc. Not only must they worry about s
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Re:Makes sense (Real Time) (Score:2)
The aviation industry has been doing this for many decades and no doubt have pre-built solutions that could be adopted.
The medical equipment industry has similar software.
It's a matter of obtaining the intellectual property for the real-time OSs and such. The apps would be different but the underlying real-time kernel could be the same. The value of well-debugged real-time software would be high. But would management recognize that?
The old question, build or buy?
Programming quality (Score:2)
The bottleneck usually lies in the quality of code their in-house programmers create.
I'm shocked, shocked! to hear this.