How Samsung is Evolving Into an Open Source Company

Eighteen months ago, Samsung s open source team was just one person: Linux and FOSS advocate Ibrahim Haddad. The new Open Source Innovation Group at Samsung is now 40 people strong, including 20 developers, devoted fulltime to working on upstream projects and shepherding open source development into the company. And it s growing. Here, Haddad and Guy Martin, open source strategist at Samsung, describe the open source group, why it was started, what they hope to accomplish, and why it s important to the op