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Anyone else think ARM missed an opportunity to make this open source? Is the fear that the platform would "fork" in very bad (far out) ways, real?
by higherpurpose 12y ago
Anyone else think ARM missed an opportunity to make this open source? Is the fear that the platform would "fork" in very bad (far out) ways, real?
- zokier 12y agoYou mean like https://github.com/mbedmicro/mbed https://github.com/mbedmicro/mbed ?
- jvermillard 12y agoa bigchunk of the announced new parts are not going to be opensourced (like the server and some part of the IP stack)
- jvermillard 12y agomore details: http://www.javaworld.com/article/2692491/mobile-java/arms-mbed-falls-short-of-true-open-source.html http://www.javaworld.com/article/2692491/mobile-java/arms-mb...
- jvermillard 12y agoyes it's kinda broken when you know all the existing alternatives: contiki OS, RIOT OS, openwsn, and for LWM2M eclipse wakaama and (shameless plug:) Leshan in place of the mbed server.
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- zwieback 12y agoYeah, it's not really clear what they gain by keeping it closed and the fragmentation fear seems unwarranted. If it were open source people might be more likely to port it to non-ARM platforms but I doubt that's the main motivation.
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- KaiserPro 12y agoThey are aiming it at large scale rollouts. They are sort of pitching it in the same way that Amazon does its cloud computing.
- bsder 12y agoWhy should ARM? Anybody who cares already has an open-source chain to work with. This is trying to capture the folks who aren't capable enough to use the open-source toolchain and not rich enough to use the ARM-proprietary toolchain.