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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buva" data-source="post: 3251665" data-attributes="member: 66788">This Might be the future Automakers have been adding electronic gizmos to vehicles for decades, and  operating systems have been developed to allow each system communicate with one  another. The OSs are different from one brand to the next, but BMW wants to help  develop a system using an  open-source Linux platform it's helping to create along with Google and Wind  River Systems. Using Linux as a base would allow anyone with a  background in coding to make changes to the system to suit each manufacturer's  needs. Plus, a single platform would make it easier for third-party vendors to  create hardware or an application and be sure that it would work correctly in  any vehicle using the OS. Automakers such as General Motors and Chrysler sound  interested in the idea, while Ford and Honda, which already use a Microsoft OS  in their cars, have a few more questions that need answering before they are  ready to jump on the open-source bandwagon. In any case, in-car gadgetry's not  going anywhere and it will take years for any one system to made standard.<img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/linux-logo_bmw_250op.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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