Originally posted by Danniello
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The benefit is that they are paying for Linux development in a specific field where it could surely use it (realtime and safety-critical usecases) and using better development practices themselves (i.e. not accepting random blobs in their system).
It would be nice to have some GPL applications that could connect with car system for statistics/diagnostics/etc. - and it could be nice to have such programs on Linux.
You can't usually control much of the system without the dedicated software for each manufacturer that they use for debug or diagnostics, so you won't be able to automate tasks in the car, for example, but I don't see much point in doing that imho.
Linux is adored by companies, because they could take it almost for free and then sell it with proprietary "addons" that will harvest user data only for them. User in such situations likely do not have benefits from that (for example Android).
Also to be fair the tracking is not in Linux (the kernel) but in the userspace components (the rest of the OS).
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