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The ALMA team has released ACS 8.0 on Red Hat 4.4, downgrading the Linux version from the foreseen 5.2 version. This choice, with the consequent back-porting of the code to the older OS version, had to be taken because of major problems encountered by the Control and Correlator teams in porting RTAI real time code to Red Hat 5.2. As soon as these problems will be solved, ACS 8.0 will be released also for Red Hat 5.2. Report
These folks deliberately chose to base their work on a version of software we developed that had somehow been transformed to have none of our copyright notices, ignored our complaints about their lack of interest in scientific integrity, and refused to even discuss a commercial solution with the inventors, and have by now invested untold amounts of public money trying to keep the mess working.
And like Intel, I would argue that mobile software companies are instrumental in making silicon solutions pervasive, because they tick two major check boxes: reference design and support.
The hidden asset of mobile software companies
Mobile embedded software companies (e.g. Myriad, Access, Aplix, NXP software, Azingo) have a unique understanding of products as a hardware/software system. They understand how silicon can be leveraged, encapsulated and productised to fast-track device delivery. Beyond specific IP, these companies have the capability to build the very first product that will feature a new chipset. This is the reference design check box.A reference design is not a half-baked breadboard; it is a scale 1:1 device, ready to ship.
The absence of such capability has drained Texas Instrument, once the mobile silicon leader. Alternatively, true reference design has been instrumental in the success of Qualcomm and Mediatek.(cite)
Also see previous note