South Korean vendors, Samsung, known to join the Linux Foundation , a not-for profit organizations (non-profit). No half-hearted direct Samsung chose to be a Platinum member level, which is known to be a Platinum member required entry fee of $ 500,000. It is known that Samsung will be joined by several other companies include IBM, Intel, and Oracle.
Linux Foundation itself is an organization dedicated to helping the growth of open-source Linux OS. Steps taken by Samsung itself is not the first thing, because before it Samsung is known to help likes open-source platform Tizen and call it Android.Samsung's participation is even beat level member of Google who is known only to get gold level only.Level Platinum itself means a seat on the BOD Samsung Linux Foundation. Unfortunately there is still no information about what will be Samsung's latest breakthrough in this respect.
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