Prospects for free software in cars
Prospects for free software in cars
[Distributions] Posted Apr 10, 2018 16:54 UTC (Tue) by andyo
Car manufacturers, like most companies, navigate a narrow lane between the benefits of using free and open-source software and the perceived or real importance of hiding their trade secrets. Many are using free software in some of the myriad software components that make up a modern car, and even work in consortia to develop free software. At the recent LibrePlanet conference, free-software advocate Jeremiah Foster covered progress in the automotive sector and made an impassioned case for more free software in their embedded systems.
Subscribers can read on for a report on the talk by guest author Andy Oram.