Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by andrewshadura on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:13PM (#14045682)

Tizen is not free software, and it's not a real platform. It's a toy Samsung uses to threaten Google with.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by ZenoArrow on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:46PM (#14045932)

>"Tizen is not free software"

It's developed with the support of the Linux Foundation, with the code released under open source licences. There are some parts of the design that are licenced by Samsung (e.g the SDK), but overall it looks pretty open to me.

>"it's not a real platform"

It has shipped in multiple devices, including every TV Samsung have sold since 2015:

https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Devices

>"It's a toy Samsung uses to threaten Google with."

It's a little more than that. At the moment it's not got much traction on phones, but I still maintain it's the best option for an open-source mobile OS that we've got left now that Ubuntu are out of the picture. If you can think of a better alternative that currently exists, by all means feel free to share it.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by int_19h on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:05PM (#14046840)

Wait, the SDK is not open source??

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by andrewshadura on Friday April 07, 2017 @09:13AM (#14059304)

> It's developed with the support of the Linux Foundation, with the code released under open source licences. There are some parts of the design that are licenced by Samsung (e.g the SDK), but overall it looks pretty open to me.

Some core components are not (or were not) free software. And the license for the SDK gives Samsung the rights to revoke forbid specific users from using it.

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