The Linux Foundation Announces Project to Build Real-Time OS for IoT Devices

Kinda interesting, but I'm not sure if I like the idea of The Linux Foundation investing in alternative operating systems. Surely the industry would have some other venues through which they could do this.

I suspect they're getting paid to do it.

If so, it would still seem to be a distraction from their ostensible purpose.

Had to dig a bit to find but seems Apache 2.0 licensed https://www.zephyrproject.org/content/zephyr-kernel-v100-rel...

Yeah, I was hoping for a GPL license here, but given the amount of commercial backing I wasn't expecting to find a GPL like license.

I wonder whether they will add Intel Edison support in the future...

Early support for the Zephyr Project includes Intel...

<<closes tab>>

And an OS can be made to do things that you may not want it to do.

If I write it in firmware, and write it for that function, you just can't "hack" it, as the functions just don't exist. Well, unless they plan on a verified OS. In that case, good luck ever getting it written. (Or look at TRON - possibly...)