Glyn Moody writes, "It will be impossible for any one company or even group of companies to write the necessary code for the millions of different systems that will be joining the Internet of things. The only way for this to work is if the code is open source, so that manufacturers - and hackers - can simply adapt it for their own favourite device. That's precisely what has happened with some of the most successful code in the field of mobile phones."
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