Show you the code?
Show you the code?
Posted Apr 16, 2018 22:25 UTC (Mon) by federico3 (guest, #101963)In reply to: Show you the code? by Cyberax
Parent article: Prospects for free software in cars
On an always-connected device, with onboard GPSes and maps and a dedicated checksum verification device?
>> or seek legal validation (as people already do for modified cars)
> That'd be a couple of million dollars.
And yet many critical systems have plenty of FLOSS on board and yet they receive approval and often blanket approvals for free for use in aeronautics & so on.
Random examples: the Linux kernel and BSD. They receive patches. Various organizations give approvals for special uses.
>> or send patches upstream to have them merged.
> Yeah, sure.
This comments are really not helpful.
Posted Apr 16, 2018 23:14 UTC (Mon)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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> And yet many critical systems have plenty of FLOSS on board and yet they receive approval and often blanket approvals for free for use in aeronautics & so on.
Show you the code?
None of this is required by law.
Automotive systems (never mind avionics) are rigorously tested before each release, with prolonged real-world testing on actual hardware. Presence of FLOSS on them is immaterial.