Samsung is joining the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member, which gives it a seat on the Foundation’s Board of Directors. At the same time, the Korean giant has the opportunity to participate with the kernel community and adopt open source best practices.
Linux is not just about phones — though Android is a Linux-based OS — with Sammy hoping to take advantage of the open-source community to make an array of its products that much better. TVs come to mind first, though as we know, Samsung is also involved in many other areas, computers being one of them (think Chromebook). Moreover, the company may also want to help push Tizen forward, now that it contributed its Bada platform to the project.
We’ll make sure to follow this and all other Samsung-related news closely and let you know as soon as we see the first (mobile) results coming out from this co-operation. Stay tuned in the meantime…