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The Third Industrial Revolution has begun (2) - Open Source: the automotive industry

Posted by ProjectC 
<blockquote>'Toyota looks towards open innovation and collaboration to help transform auto industry..

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A major shift is underway in the automotive industry .. The Linux operating system is providing a common platform that helps connect the world’s network of devices, including cars.'

- Toyota Joins Linux Foundation, July 5, 2011 </blockquote>


<blockquote>'Linux is making it possible for organizations to innovate in every device category. Because of its flexibility..'

- Jennifer Cloer, Best Linux Devices of 2011, 30 November 2011</blockquote>


<blockquote>'Automotive Linux Summit, a conference designed to bring together experts from the automotive industry and Linux and open source software community.'

- Rudolf J Streif, First-Ever Automotive Linux Summit: Two Communities Become One, 29 November 2011</blockquote>


<blockquote>'..Linux evolves much more rapidly than any other OS, and diversifies faster. No other operating system has jumped to new platforms, new workloads, and new architectures so quickly. As a result, Linux tends to get new features and functionality sooner than the other options, on a wider variety of platforms..'

- Amanda McPherson, Linux Supercomputing Dominance: A Look Under the Hood, 28 November 2011</blockquote>


<blockquote>'We're standing on the shoulders of the gigantic open source community. I would not be surprised if openSUSE's latest update has over 300,000 improvements that resulted from efforts in the open source community.'

- Bryen Yunahsko, member of the OpenSUSE Board and SUSE marketing lead (Source, 2011-11-16)</blockquote>


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<blockquote>The Third Industrial Revolution has begun (1)</blockquote>