On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 9:48 AM dpr...@deepplum.com <dpr...@deepplum.com> wrote: > > How would one get Linux Foundation to raise money to sponsor a router > software initiative?
We tried. Personally, having bled out mentally and financially more than once, I am not up to trying again. They don't return our calls anymore. > I can see that all the current network product OEMs might mass up to kill it > or make it fail. Kind of like coreboot vs. UEFI. > > But maybe Facebook or Amazon or Google - dedicated white-box fan companies - > might do it. Or maybe there's a Chinese funding source. Well, try to sort through https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesnycouncil/2018/07/26/why-you-should-start-looking-at-googles-flutter-and-fuchsia-now/#795943a6a309 As for china, sure, that would be great. Europe, sure. I think china has a huge incentive to get into making better firmware in collaboration with europe. As for america... > -----Original Message----- > From: "Jonathan Morton" <chromati...@gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 10:13am > To: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swm...@swm.pp.se> > Cc: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net > Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] So how fHow wouar behind is the embedded router > world, still? > > > On 26 Jul, 2018, at 11:53 am, Mikael Abrahamsson <swm...@swm.pp.se> wrote: > > > > they seem to live in a world where you take a linux kernel that's announced > > as LTS (in the best of worlds), work on that for 1-2 years during which you > > release an SDK, which then the device manufacturers will take and start > > putting their solutions on, which takes another 1-2 years before it reaches > > customers. > > This in itself sounds like a colossal waste of developer man-hours. Which > really just serves to underline how clueless CPE vendors are - about their > core business, no less. > > They obviously have a lot more resources than we do. What could *we* do with > that level of funding and organisation? Take six months, and put out a > router that *doesn't* suck for a change! > > - Jonathan Morton > > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel -- Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC http://www.teklibre.com Tel: 1-669-226-2619 _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel