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London Calling: Linaro takes on Internet of Things
Peter Clarke
11/9/2012 6:21 AM EST
ARM for-profit, Linaro not-for-profit
Grey concluded by saying the Linaro charter is broad: "The charter of Linaro is Linux on ARM but not just Linux it is really open-source software on ARM. Linaro is successful at bringing companies together who have common software engineering interests."
Linaro has about 120 engineers of which about half are employed directly and about half are assignees from the sponsoring companies. That number is set to double – or go even higher – over the next 12 months as Grey ramps up activities.
This casts Linaro in an interesting light and as a significant parallel organization to ARM.
ARM is an out-source organization that develops common CPU and GPU architectures for scores of chip companies to license, allowing them to focus on other pieces of hardware and software for differentiation. ARM saves duplicated effort and is a for-profit organization that is paid for its intellectual property.
Linaro is an out-source organization that develops open-source software for other companies to use allowing them to focus on other pieces of differentiating software, applications and use cases. Linaro saves duplicated effort and is non-profit organization.
Did ARM miss a trick here?
Related links and articles:
www.linaro.org
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Grey concluded by saying the Linaro charter is broad: "The charter of Linaro is Linux on ARM but not just Linux it is really open-source software on ARM. Linaro is successful at bringing companies together who have common software engineering interests."
Linaro has about 120 engineers of which about half are employed directly and about half are assignees from the sponsoring companies. That number is set to double – or go even higher – over the next 12 months as Grey ramps up activities.
This casts Linaro in an interesting light and as a significant parallel organization to ARM.
ARM is an out-source organization that develops common CPU and GPU architectures for scores of chip companies to license, allowing them to focus on other pieces of hardware and software for differentiation. ARM saves duplicated effort and is a for-profit organization that is paid for its intellectual property.
Linaro is an out-source organization that develops open-source software for other companies to use allowing them to focus on other pieces of differentiating software, applications and use cases. Linaro saves duplicated effort and is non-profit organization.
Did ARM miss a trick here?
Related links and articles:
www.linaro.org
News articles:
Linaro ARM server efforts targets Linux code
Linux groups launch Tizen to fight Android
Linaro makes Snowball shine
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