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0 pointsbogomipz9y ago0 comments

Why is your link relevant? Joyent = Illumos, which is a fork of open-Solaris, not Linux at all.

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The point being that Samsung give a shit about contributing to open-source projects at all.

The Samsung TV I got came with a pirated copy of linux, which is quite a feat (came with a copy of the GPL 3, which is a clear breach of the GPL 2 only license of linux).

mikekchar9y ago

About 3 years ago Samsung realised that they were having trouble understanding how to deal with free and open source software. They were actively recruiting people to help them improve on that area.

Source: I applied for the job. I didn't get it ;-)

egeozcan9y ago

Oh. I thought you could include v2 code in v3 codebases but not vice versa? I may need to go through my projects if that's really not the case.

vertex-four9y ago

Linux has a specific amendment to the GPLv2 stating that it must always be distributed under the terms of the GPLv2, not the GPLv3 or any later version.

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gribbly9y ago

They are legally bound to contribute their modifications back to Linux (if they distribute them), it may be a different matter when they don't have to.

I can't say I know either way, however I do recall their Tizen SDK licensing not being accepted as open source due to it only granting the right to use certain components on 'Tizen Certified Platforms'.

Daviey9y ago

No.. they are obliged to provide the source... not contribute them back. (Although the cost of maintaining patches internally, makes it cheaper to contribute them back)

bogomipzOP9y ago

Have you used the browser on a Samsung Smart TV? They didn't give a shit about that.

ethbro9y ago

I think a lot of hardware companies are still in the "smart" transition phase. In the sense that they've only been offering a product line with GUI driven software component for the past ~5 years.

Which means the larger companies* are probably on schedule for development to start slowing because of technical debt. And therefore solving that (modern development practices and open source involvement!) will become a competive advantage.

* Sadly, the smaller companies will probably always be hacked-together-MVP stacks on top of whatever release they started dev on

pazimzadeh9y ago

Quick wiki on Joyent:

"In February 2014, Joyent announced a partnership with Canonical to offer virtual Ubuntu machines."

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