Hyundai Joins the Linux Foundation To Embrace AGL's Open Source Connected Car Tech (venturebeat.com)

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.

Comments

Re: Goodbye Linux

[Chas]

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...

Re:Goodbye Linux

[jellomizer]

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.