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Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS

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Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS

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Post by raphman »

arpit wrote: post #11

I think this article was more newsworthy when they accidentally quoted it as 500M instead of 500K (thats how I saw it on my Twitter feeds). The update to reflect the correct amount makes the title feel out of place.

Agreed. And it is interesting that they did not even do simple fact-checking before posting such a headline.

Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS

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Post by gsivil »

mturmon wrote: post #12
brianobush wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fire those two lawyers and hire a gang of engineers.

If you want a gang for $500K, please step over to the postdoc aisle. You might be able to get 4 or 5.

If you take into account the overheads ;)

Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS

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Post by truncate »

onedognight wrote: post #27
cperciva wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$500k is almost the entire budget of the FreeBSD Foundation. I don't know what the Linux Foundation spends money on, but the FreeBSD Foundation does great stuff with its money. And if you happen to have a "paltry" $500k sitting around, feel free to send it in FreeBSD's direction. :-)

> I don't know what the Linux Foundation spends money on At a minimum, Linus. What would you pay him? Edit: Interestingly he doesn't appear in the Linux Foundation's 990.

And organizing worldwide/regional conferences and meetings maybe?

Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS

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jiggy2011 wrote: post #25

Is this a trend? First Valve is investing in Linux (by developing their platform for it) and now Samsung. Whilst there has obviously been commercial investment in the past , I'm assuming the majority of it was for enterprise server stuff or embedded things. This is to build user facing stuff. Perhaps companies are realizing that the only way to escape the nets of MS/Apple and their walled gardens is to invest in open…

Adding to this, I've heard Electronic Arts released two games on Ubuntu Market as well. Anyway, this growing interest targeting general user is overall good for Linux.

Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS

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Post by pavlov »

This is not so much an investment, but a PR move to remind the world that Samsung continues to be involved in mobile Linux.

Samsung is investing much more substantial amounts of R&D money into Tizen, a Linux-based mobile OS with a HTML5 UI layer (co-developed with Intel). That's their real hedge against Apple and Google.

Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS

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Post by DrCatbox »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #25

Is this a trend? First Valve is investing in Linux (by developing their platform for it) and now Samsung. Whilst there has obviously been commercial investment in the past , I'm assuming the majority of it was for enterprise server stuff or embedded things. This is to build user facing stuff. Perhaps companies are realizing that the only way to escape the nets of MS/Apple and their walled gardens is to invest in open…

Companies are realizing that Microsoft doesnt have what it takes to maintain a good desktop user experience. They have introduced Metro and UEFI, both aim to reduce the power of the user on their devices. Perhaps Samsung and Valve realized they as suppliers of programs/hardware need more to say in a future computer market.
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