This is a bus that is growing rapidly in the automotive industry and is also popular in vending machines. There's an element of structure built into the network level to enhance safety as it's an automotive standard.
There has been an open source home automation system based on it for several years.
Yeah, here it is:
http://caraca.sourceforge.net/
Moblin is limited to Intel video drivers and that means it is very limited in regards to 3D. This is an intentional move on Intel's part in order to enforce product category distinctions.
Tens of millions? It's more than that by far. The financial relationship between school districts and Microsoft is immense.
The very notion on free software is under constant attack day in and day out in the school precisely because the school administrations are already so bought out.
The only reason Microsoft even exists is because of their insistence that everybody owes them something.
How does Microsoft beat Linux in schools? The answers are vast. But what is partly missing in the analysis is the fact that the education "market" is not isolated to the United States. These are global issues in the here and now.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
