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+
+Nobody has [yet] understood
+Embedded Linux
+
+%center
+%size 4
+by
+
+Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Introduction
+
+Who is speaking to you?
+		an independent Free Software developer, consultant and trainer
+		13 years experience using/deploying and developing for Linux on server and workstation
+		10 years professional experience doing Linux system + kernel level development 
+		strong focus on network security and embedded
+		expert in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) copyright and licensing
+		digital board-level hardware design, esp. embedded systems
+		active developer and contributor to many FOSS projects
+		thus, a techie, who will therefore not have fancy animated slides ;)
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Introduction
+
+Why am I qualified?
+	The 'Linux community' POV
+		Initiator of OpenEZX project (Linux on Motorola GSM phones)
+		Author of various drivers for embedded hardware
+	The 'embedded Linux done the rigth way' POV
+		Lead System Architect (SW+HW) at Openmoko, Inc.
+		Co-creator of Open Hardware + Software for RFID
+			OpenPCD, OpenPICC, librfid, libmrtd
+	The 'chip manufacturer' POV
+		Open Source Liaison at VIA Technologies, Inc.
+	The 'customer of consumer-grade embedded Linux' POV
+		Done reverse-engineering on hundreds of devices for gpl-violations.org
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Linux is everywhere!
+
+%image "linux_netfilter_singapore_entertainment.jpg"
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Linux is everywhere
+
+Linux is everywhere!
+	Linux mobile phones (Motorola, Openmoko)
+	In-flight entertainment systems 
+	Embedded networking gear
+		DSLAMs
+		rack monitoring
+	Public payphones
+	ATM's / PoS / vending machines
+	Now even Fitness gear (Daum Ergometer)
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Strengths of FOSS [0/4]
+
+
+What are the true strengths of FOSS
+	Innovative and creative development
+	Security due to code review / bugreport / patches
+	Long-term maintainable code
+	Stable and reliable systems
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Strengths of FOSS [1/4]
+
+
+Innovative and creative development
+	easy-to-read existing codebase
+	standard (FOSS) development tools
+	thus, easy to modify and add features
+	community will build around great new features/apps
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Strengths of FOSS [2/4]
+
+
+Security due to code review / bugreport / patches
+	because all the code is out there
+	because many people are familiar with existing architecture
+	because code quality requirements usually very high
+	because community process allows quick and fast integration of bugfix
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Strengths of FOSS [3/4]
+
+
+Long-term maintainable code
+	because there's a lot of attention on good software architecture
+	because many developers are familiar with the shared/common API's
+	because code quality requirements usually ery high
+	because all code in mainline gets maintained and updated
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Strengths of FOSS [4/4]
+
+
+Stable and reliable systems
+	because code quality requirements usually ery high
+	because kernel releases are quite frequent
+	because all mainline code is automatically ported to new releases
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Reality Check
+
+	So we should have the perfect world
+		tons of embedded Linux products
+		all of them maitainable, secure, stable
+		encouraging lots of creative work on top of their codebase
+
+	What is the reality
+		tons of embedded Linux products
+		none of the strengths of FOSS present in 99% of them
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+What does the vendor get
+
+So what do the embedded vendors get?
+	unstable software
+	security nightmares
+	unmaintainable code
+	no innovation
+	no user-contributed bug fixes
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+What does the vendor get
+
+unstable software
+	because their code stinks (low quality)
+	because they patch around problems rather than solving them
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+What does the vendor get
+
+security nightmares
+	because they use stoneage forks of the kernel
+	because they never contributed their code mainline
+	because those forks can never be merged back with mainline again
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+What does the vendor get
+
+unmaintainable code
+	because they have one fork of the code per device (product)
+	because their code quality sucks
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+What does the vendor get
+
+no innovation
+		because they try to hide their code (gpl-violations.org)
+		because their R&D environment is non-standard
+			weird cross-toolchains that nobody has seen before
+			weird filesystems with custom patches that nobody knows
+		because they add proprietary components to lock developers from adding features
+			e.g. the entire web-based UI for embedded networking gear
+			binary-only kernel modules that force people to use old kernels with no interesting new features
+		because it is, overall, way too hard to develop on/for their platform
+		because they don't disclose serial console and/or JTAG access
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Reality Check
+
+So why do they still do it?
+	there can only be one conclusion:
+		they never understood the real potential of FOSS
+		all they do is try to compete with what proprietary competitors do
+		they never think about creating platforms, every product is distinct/separate
+		they have no interest in improving their products
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+What does the community get
+
+So what does the community get?
+	products that run some crappy fork of Linux somewhere under the hood
+		but which we cannot really touch/modify without a lot of effort
+	we face opposition from the product maker if we want to help him to improve
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+TODO
+
+What should they do?
+	stop thinking in terms of selling black boxes
+	defining products that take advantage of the true strength of FOSS
+	compete against the proprietary competition on a level that they can't match
+	give up the idea of defining all aspects of an appliance
+	rather think of building an extensible platforms and let community innovate
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Outlook
+
+
+Outlook
+	We will see even more embedded Linux, e.g. Mobile phones
+	We will see even more restricted devices (Tivo-ization, DRM for code)
+		which go on _very_ thin ice even with GPLv2
+		which almost completely remove all freedoms of FOSS
+	We have some faint dim light at the end of a very far tunnel
+		e.g. projects like Openmoko, who truly see openness as a feature
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+Nobody has [yet] understood Embedded Linux
+Outlook
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