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Samsung's Open Source Group Is Growing, Hiring Developers
jones_supa writes Almost two years ago, Samsung's open source team was just one person: Linux and FOSS advocate Ibrahim Haddad, head of the open source group at Samsung Research America. The new Open Source Innovation Group at Samsung is now 40 people strong, including 30 developers, devoted full-time to working on upstream projects and shepherding open source development into the company. The group is hiring aggressively and plans to double the size of the group in the coming years. Their first targets are project maintainers and key contributors to 23 open source projects that are integral to Samsung's products, including Linux, Gstreamer, FFmpeg, Blink, Webkit, EFL, and Wayland. They plan to eventually start hiring more junior open source developers as well. Just about every Samsung product, from phones and tablets to home appliances, uses open source software, said Guy Martin, senior open source strategist at Samsung. Martin also mentions the importance of funding: "You already see this in the Linux kernel, where most people who contribute are paid to contribute. And you'll see that more and more."
and make it possible to use your smartphones with OS'es other than yours. That should also include your stylus input, for which you are currently market leader. I'd have almost bought one of your devices, but when I found out CM doesn't support it because of driver problems I gave it back.
You have to realize that Samsung Electronics - which is only part of the Samsung group - has about 250,000 employees. As with any company this big, there's going to be a collection of good teams to work in and a (hopefully smaller) collection of not-so-good teams to work in. There are going to be communication breakdowns where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. No big company is immune to this. Find a good group with a good manager in any company and you'll be happy. Find a bad manager in an otherwise good company and you'll be miserable.
I work in the Samsung Austin R & D Center where we design CPUs for mobile devices. I love it here - an awesome work environment, awesome people, and excellent benefits because of Samsung's size, even though our building only has about 300 people in it. We have people here contributing to open source projects even though they're not part of the open source team that this article is referring to.
Brother has excellent linux support and puts lots of features in that everyone else nickle-and-dimes you for.
Buy any Brother networked laser printer and you'll likely be able to print from any unix-like system with no drivers. They support /all/ of the networked printing standards out of the box from LPD to google cloud print. Just point a browser at your printer's IP address and be amazed at the pages of features you can configure.
Hell, the models with scanners can be configured for scan to FTP. Want to scan? Set up an FTP server. Who the fuck needs drivers? Don't want to do FTP? How about TFTP or SMTP right to a mail server?
The DCP-L2540DW is 100 bucks on amazon and it supports all of that. Mind boggling, isn't it?
http://www.brother-usa.com/MFC/ModelDetail/4/DCPL2540DW/
Yeah, the toner is pricy (Brother is cheaper than it's competitors but its still not cheap) but but if you're like me you only need to print once a month the utility is worth the price.
I had a 6 year old brother wireless laser printer but I recently purchased another one. The old one worked fine, but the newer models support google cloud print and have apps for iOS and Android that let you print from your mobile devices.