TechView: Linus Torvalds, Inventor of Linux (Huffington Post)

Posted May 24, 2014 19:34 UTC (Sat) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: TechView: Linus Torvalds, Inventor of Linux (Huffington Post) by simlo
Parent article: TechView: Linus Torvalds, Inventor of Linux (Huffington Post)

> The v3 requirements against tivolization does not have any practical effect, as a compiler is not put into an embedded device anyway.

I don't think that is actually true anymore. Compilers are used on many devices other than developer workstations such as part of a JIT or part of a GPU driver, both of which can be relevant on boot locked machines. GCC is also very old and the project was hesitant to put in the abstraction layers needed for it to integrate with such systems which are likely proprietary.