According to the latest data from the Linux Foundation, Linux since kernel 2.6.36, a shift has taken place in terms of sponsorship activity. Increase in activity since the 2.6.36 kernel highlights the increasing advantages of Linux for mobile and embedded companies. According to the Linux Foundation, these companies not only adds support for kernel hardware, they also promote the core kernel areas, such as the scheduler and memory management.
The graph below shows the effective increase or decrease in activity by the top 20 contributors to the Linux kernel since version 2.6.36. Samsung Electronics has increased the percentage of their sponsorship commitments by 1.83 times.
Samsung Electronics started using open source about 10 years ago, using the distribution of MontaVista embedded Linux and started with a few prototype devices such as household appliances and PDAs. The use of open source software and then expanded to Samsung flat screen TV when switching from RTOS to Linux. And the use of Linux itself has now been extended to smartphones, camcorders and digital cameras.
March 2013 ago, Samsung opened department
Samsung Open Source Group (OSG) under the Advanced Software Platform Lab in San Jose, California, United States. Through this new division, Samsung aims to form a team that will focus to contribute and collaborate with project / innovation / key open source technologies.In addition to San Jose, Samsung OSG today has offices in South Korea and London, England, as part of the Samsung European Research Institute (including the smaller satellite offices in Helsinki, Finland).
Samsung OSG led by Ibrahim Haddad, who previously worked at the Linux Foundation's management team, and has also led the open source technology division at Palm (WebOS maker before it was acquired by HP) and Motorola.
According to Dr. Sang-bum Suh, Vice President of Software Platform Team at Samsung Software R & D Center, the company has established itself as a significant contributor to the Linux kernel and open source community."I believe that the open source components have contributed so much to the success of Samsung's business."said Dr. Suh.
Samsung has been
expanding contributions to Linux and open source, particularly through the Tizen project.Not less than 20,000 software developers whose work is mostly based on open source components has been working at Samsung Electronics, and the company plans to continue to add future software workers.
"We believe we have been successful in the past in hardware components," said Dr. Suh. "In the future we would like to add the ability of software to hardware success."
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