FSCONS: An endangered species: computer as a universal machine

Development for Embedded Systems

Day

Saturday 12th of November, 2011

Start

10:00

End

10:45

Duration

0:45:00

Room

2

by Jeremiah C. Foster

The automotive industry has discovered Free Software/Open Source and are embracing GNU/Linux to build the next generation of "infotainment" head units in your car. This talk will discuss the challenges as well as the immense opportunities GNU/Linux brings to the automotive marketplace.

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"Your mobile phones has more computing power than the entire human race when we landed on the moon"

Things that use to be normal, loaning, lending, sharing, copy are now limited.

With the future uefi secure boot I will not be able to decide what software I trust. - But a single third party decides who I should thrust. They become gatekeepers to our computer with this. 

Who should decide? - What should be able to to do whit our computers?