[phaet0n]

Congratulations. I hope Samsung nurtures the technical excellence at Joyent.

Please, please continue to develop your public cloud offerings. Having options other that the myopic, me-too, feature-matching, monoculture that is AWS/GCE/Azure is incredibly important.

That said, for my use profile, you guys need to work on your price competitiveness. Hopefully Samsung will inject the necessary cash for economies-of-scale.

[rms_returns]

> Congratulations. I hope Samsung nurtures the technical excellence at Joyent.

I'm sure they will. They are a top contributor to open source:

http://linuxcontrib-inn.rhcloud.com/

[bogomipz]

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

[benley]

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

[fhars]

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).

[mikekchar]

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 ;-)

[egeozcan]

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-four]

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.

[gribbly]

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'.

[Daviey]

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)

[bogomipz]

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

[ethbro]

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

[pazimzadeh]

Quick wiki on Joyent:

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

[pwelch]

I second that. I also hope they add necessary resources to grow SmartOS.