Samsung Electronics Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member

Today it became known that the South Korean corporation Samsung Electronics decided to strengthen its presence in the Linux Foundation, increasing its privileges from a silver partner to a platinum member. This is the highest level, allowing the company to get a place on the board of directors. The cost of such buns by the standards of the corporation is penny - “only” $ 500 thousand. Thus, Samsung became the seventh member of the fund with the highest status, before Samsung such contributions were made by IBM, Intel, Oracle, Qualcomm, NEC and Fujitsu. For comparison, such well-known companies in the Open Source world as Red Hat or Canonical have only the lowest silver status.

Samsung actively uses the Linux kernel in its products, ranging from communicators to computers. Among the well-known Linux-projects of the corporation, of course, the line of Android-smartphones, the development of its own operating system Tizen, as well as the integration of Google Chrome OS in its products.
Samsung Electronics Vice President WonJo Pak said:
We look forward to expanding our cooperation and support for our growing portfolio of Linux kernel devices, and we are ready to invest in popularizing Linux .
In the meantime, Samsung, following the trend, even before the official launch of its flagship device Galaxy SIII uploads the source codes related to the smartphone software.