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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by higherpurpose on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:20PM (#8428508)
Anyone else think ARM missed an opportunity to make this open source? Is the fear that the platform would "fork" in very bad (far out) ways, real?
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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by bsder on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @04:26PM (#8429267)
Why should ARM?

Anybody who cares already has an open-source chain to work with.

This is trying to capture the folks who aren't capable enough to use the open-source toolchain and not rich enough to use the ARM-proprietary toolchain.

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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by zwieback on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @03:27PM (#8428930)
Yeah, it's not really clear what they gain by keeping it closed and the fragmentation fear seems unwarranted. If it were open source people might be more likely to port it to non-ARM platforms but I doubt that's the main motivation.
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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by KaiserPro on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @04:56PM (#8429417)
They are aiming it at large scale rollouts. They are sort of pitching it in the same way that Amazon does its cloud computing.
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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by zokier on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:52PM (#8428712)
You mean like https://github.com/mbedmicro/mbed ?
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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by jvermillard on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @03:00PM (#8428769)
more details: http://www.javaworld.com/article/2692491/mobile-java/arms-mb...
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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by jvermillard on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:58PM (#8428750)
a bigchunk of the announced new parts are not going to be opensourced (like the server and some part of the IP stack)
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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by jvermillard on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:55PM (#8428736)
yes it's kinda broken when you know all the existing alternatives: contiki OS, RIOT OS, openwsn, and for LWM2M eclipse wakaama and (shameless plug:) Leshan in place of the mbed server.
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