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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 ajross »

fpgeek wrote: post #33
alttab wrote: post #3

$500k? When are they going to get serious?

Well, they're more serious than Red Hat (Silver member), SUSE (Gold member) and Google (Gold member though currently doubled via Motorola). How much more serious do you want?

To be fair, that's "serious support of the Linux Foundation", not "serious support of Linux". As I'm sure you're aware, all three of those companies contribute vastly more to the open source community than their mere support of LF.

LF pays for Linus and GregKH, and I'm sure a lot of other good work. It's hardly all of "Linux".

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

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Post by adestefan »

truncate wrote: post #37
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.

They are HTML 5 games that were already in the Chrome store [1]. It ended up being a big story of nothing.

[1] http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/05/new-ea-games-released-in-...

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