White paper: the economic value of the Long Term Support Initiative

LTSI is important because device makers are doing significant back-porting, bug testing and driver development on their own, which carries substantial cost in terms of time-to-market, as well as development and engineering effort to maintain those custom kernels. Through collaboration in this initiative, these CE vendors are reducing the duplication of effort currently prevalent in the consumer electronics industry. This new paper helps calculate that total cost savings in more definite terms.

The Linux Foundation has announced the availability of a white paper (registration required) estimating the economic value of the Long Term Support Initiative, an effort which supports stable kernel releases for the consumer electronics industry. The resulting value is about $3 million per release. " Log in to post comments)