[$] Obstacles to contribution in embedded Linux
Tim Bird has worked with embedded Linux for many years; during this time he
has noticed an unhappy pattern: many of the companies that use and modify
open-source software are not involved with the communities that develop
that software. That is, he said, "a shame." In an attempt to determine
what is keeping companies from contributing to the kernel in particular,
the Consumer Electronics Linux
Forum (a Linux Foundation workgroup) has run
a survey of embedded kernel developers. The resulting picture highlights
some of the forces keeping these developers from engaging with the
development community and offers some ideas for improving the situation.