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Business Case Study: Innovation at Linux

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Instructor Beth Hendricks

Beth holds a master's degree in integrated marketing communications, and has worked in journalism and marketing throughout her career.
Linux is an open source operating system for computers. Explore a business case study to learn about innovation at Linux, automotive innovation, and the use of Linux in AGL projects.

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Intro to Linux

You've heard of Windows and Apple OS, but what about Linux? The company calls itself ''the free operating system that's taken over the world.'' It is built on open-source ecosystems. What that means is that Linux allows people to create, modify, and share ideas in a collaborative environment, and it's all free. In fact, it's been free from the beginning.

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  • 0:04 Intro to Linux
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  • 1:46 Automotive Innovation
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Linux Innovation

The real benefit of Linux of organizations is as a model for innovation. Linux as a whole is a case study in how to look for opportunities beyond the boundaries of your own team or organization and help others innovate.

These days, we're seeing more and more cars, trucks, and SUVs with advanced software capabilities built in that rely, in part, on the development model created by Linux. Tesla, for example, can send over-the-air software updates to its car owners for everything from infotainment system upgrades to safety recall notices for things like a faulty charger plug. The 2018 Toyota Camry has an infotainment portal complete with touchscreen, applications, and vehicle control capabilities. Even the ride-sharing service Lyft is on board, using Linux capabilities to power some of its systems.

With the collaborative nature of Linux, a collection of the world's largest automotive players are working together on several projects.

Infotainment is one of the more common uses of Linux's many possibilities. An infotainment system incorporates things like navigation systems, video players, mobile applications, and more. There's one of these systems in the 2018 Camry, but it wasn't built solely by Toyota engineers. Rather, it was a collaborative effort of hundreds of engineers working throughout the automotive industry, all developing codes, capabilities, and applications that can be customized and placed in the vehicles of any of AGL's members.

Linux is a free operating system that developed as an open-source ecosystem, which allows people to create, modify, and share ideas in a collaborative environment. It's a collaborative kernel, the base level or central component of your computer's operating system. Linux is changing the way the automotive industry innovates. Built as a free program to be shared and improved on by anyone, Linux's success can be attributed to the system of sharing that has been present in it from the beginning.

One of the biggest advocates of the Linux system has become the automotive industry, which has created its own Automotive Grade Linux group, comprising more than 120 members all working together to improve the industry as a whole. Among the projects they are contributing to are vehicle infotainment systems, new voice recognition technologies, and autonomous driving cars.

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