[posguy]

Volkswagen (Porsche's parent company) certainly has the scale to make this happen. Seems like its entirely a corporate culture issue, same as what plagues Volkswagen's EVs and newer cars with terrible infotainment systems.

[FirmwareBurner]

>Volkswagen (Porsche's parent company) certainly has the scale to make this happen.

Yeah, but VW and Porsche are into selling cars not OSS so their priorities are aligned with that.

Think of it from the bean-counter's perspective, which run these companies: why would they invest resources into sharing your SW as OSS if that's not gonna sell more cars?

[dongping]

To commoditize your complements, so that you don't have to pay license fee to your suppliers.

In a way, the German OEMs have been trying to do so, but mostly via different standardization efforts (OpenSCENARIO for example) so that they can easily change suppliers.

[AaronM]

I think you can make that same argument for many large companies that contribute to OSS though.