Hi Matthias, On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Matthias Waehlisch < m.waehli...@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi Kaspar, > > sorry for the silence! > > As you pointed out in your email, there are scenarios where the > approach will not help due to technical reasons (and using a weird > compiler might have technical reasons as well). You may consider these > as irrelevant. But there is one aspect for sure in the IoT, the IoT is > much more heterogenous compared to the current Internet. This is a > crucial difference making the approach less suitable compared to > developing for Linux, for example. > > For me the sentence "RIOT allows LGPL + proprietary source code at the > same level of comfort compared to Linux" sounds like a cheap marketing > slogan making clear that the persons are not aware of the IoT diversity. > > Linux runs on a wide variety of 32bit and 64bit hardware. RIOT aims to do the same on other (smaller) hardware, for a wide variety of 32bit, 16bit (and to some extent 8bit) platforms. At first sight, I don't see a huge difference here in terms of heterogeneity. How would you quantify/qualify this difference? Best Emmanuel
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