Moving Embedded toward the mainline

Posted Oct 7, 2021 16:27 UTC (Thu) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087)
Parent article: Moving Google toward the mainline

The embedded world, with the move to extensive offloads, has much more technical debt accumulated, without a revenue stream and developers enabled to pay it down.

Moving Embedded toward the mainline

Posted Oct 8, 2021 11:58 UTC (Fri) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (3 responses)

The embedded world doesn't have a revenue stream? I got my TV for free?

Moving Embedded toward the mainline

Posted Oct 10, 2021 1:18 UTC (Sun) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (2 responses)

Their software divisions are given enough budget to ship a product, not a robust product. You're usually lucky to even get malicious compliance with the GPL2 on one of these things without fighting for it.

Moving Embedded toward the mainline

Posted Oct 10, 2021 1:21 UTC (Sun) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (1 responses)

Exactly. There's plenty of money; they're just choosing not to spend it on software.

Moving Embedded toward the mainline

Posted Oct 12, 2021 8:11 UTC (Tue) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

Most hardware is no better than the software when it comes to doing just enough to get something to work (and often the software has to work around the hardware bugs).

Most money is going to marketing, I suppose (and that’s probably necessary to get people to ignore the bad quality & support they get).