500K is embarrassing. probably the samsung corporation is spending more money per year on toilet paper.
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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
#42Is 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…
From Samsung, supporting linux is not exactly a new trend as they are among the funding members of the Linux Mobile foundation and were silver members of the Linux foundation before the discussed story.
Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS
#43$500k? When are they going to get serious?
From reading http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/bylaws , it seems that the $500k is the annual membership fee, not a single donation. Edit: As is also mentioned in the update to the article.
Indeed, FTA:
"Platinum membership is $500,000 per year."
"including fellow Platinum members IBM, Oracle, Intel, Fujitsu and Qualcomm Innovation Center"
So Linux Foundation is getting at least 3MM USD per year now.
Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS
#44This is all about Tizen. Samsung, and its associates and partners in various markets around the world, knows that iOS can be competed with, rapidly, by a Linux-based alternative. It has been proven already with Android, and as we all well know .. there will be next generations.
Tizen could be a next-gen mobile/integrated platform, and it could well be that Samsung are the only ones who have anything to do with it, because there is one thing about a Linux-based approach: it is multi-variate. Tizen will be Samsungs Linux, but HTC might do something similar, and Creative Labs could even dust off Plaszma/ZiiOS and produce a shudder effect through the lower-end markets, too.
The Distro Wars won't be over for a while, I think, once this starts happening.
Edit: I want to add that I think that things like the Sharp/Samsung engineers' experience with AngstromOS and so on are sort of behind this.
Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS
#45$500k? When are they going to get serious?
This is my thinking too. $500k would cover about 2-2.5 developers at Apple/MSFT, and they have many many thousands working on their OSs.
Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
From reading http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/bylaws , it seems that the $500k is the annual membership fee, not a single donation. Edit: As is also mentioned in the update to the article.
Indeed, FTA: "Platinum membership is $500,000 per year." "including fellow Platinum members IBM, Oracle, Intel, Fujitsu and Qualcomm Innovation Center" So Linux Foundation is getting at least 3MM USD per year now.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members
7 platinums * $500k = $3,5MM
15 golds * $100k = $1,5MM
110 silvers * between $5k and $20k = between $550k and $2,2MM
Total = between 5,5MM and 7,2MM
Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS
#47Oh, wow $500K... Most people I know have houses worth more than that. Are Sumsung taking the piss out of Linux here? I get $500k if the entire FreeBSD Foundation budget but you'd think more money means they can pay to hire even more great developers. You don't battle iOS with $500K.
Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS
#48This is all about Tizen. Samsung, and its associates and partners in various markets around the world, knows that iOS can be competed with, rapidly, by a Linux-based alternative. It has been proven already with Android, and as we all well know .. there will be next generations. Tizen could be a next-gen mobile/integrated platform, and it could well be that Samsung are the only ones who have anything to do with it, be…
They tried and failed before Android too.
These companies don't have what it takes to produce something as polished as Android. And even if they throw money at it and manage to do it somehow, they still do not have what it takes to build a developer community around it or a popular app store, like Google or Apple did.
Is anybody anywhere using the Samsung/Kies App Store for instance? It comes bundled on Galaxy S phones, I guess there are some people using it by mistake.
This effort can be easily underestimated, but even Microsoft is having problems doing it.
Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS
#49This is all about Tizen. Samsung, and its associates and partners in various markets around the world, knows that iOS can be competed with, rapidly, by a Linux-based alternative. It has been proven already with Android, and as we all well know .. there will be next generations. Tizen could be a next-gen mobile/integrated platform, and it could well be that Samsung are the only ones who have anything to do with it, be…
They tried and failed before Android too. These companies don't have what it takes to produce something as polished as Android. And even if they throw money at it and manage to do it somehow, they still do not have what it takes to build a developer community around it or a popular app store, like Google or Apple did. Is anybody anywhere using the Samsung/Kies App Store for instance? It comes bundled on Galaxy S phon…
They have to get the hardware out there, first and foremost. Zii Labs (Creative Labs Plaszma OS partners) could have easily competed with iOS in its earlier days, if only they'd gotten the hardware out there. They lost because they didn't get things deployed; but factually the technology is there for a real ass-whooping, in the Mobile Linux-vs.-iOS department. They have to manage a good deployment, and with an investment like this it seems that they are gearing up to do so ..
Re: Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS
#50If Samsung worded it "We're donating $500k to support the great work the Linux Foundation does with FOSS" then I might give them a nod. But to say they are investing $500k (a paltry sum) to battle iOS is kind of sad. Why even say that, it sounds so petty. So your only motivation is to attack Apple? It's not to simply support the legion of open source developers that have been giving you free software for years?
I really doubt Samsung would have worded it this way. Instead, you're reading commentary from Apple Insider, which is obviously a completely unbiased source, that clearly doesn't believe everything revolves around Apple.
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