Into this electronics disconnect steps the open source industry, which believes it has the method, the process and the clout to drive the electronics industry toward a true interoperability. But does it?
We may know in less than 12 months — at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next January — whether an effort by the Linux Foundation to bring interoperability to the Internet of Things is going anywhere.
In December, the Linux Foundation, a non-profit consortium that promotes Linux adoption, created the AllSeen Alliance. It took a code stack developed by Qualcomm called the AllJoyn Framework and put it under its open-source umbrella.