Samsung Open-Source Group Reportedly Shuts Down (phoronix.com)

At a time when several companies have grown new interest in open sourcing part of their offerings, Samsung appears to be going the other way. The company has shut down the Samsung Open-Source Group (Samsung OSG), according to a report. Phoronix, which reported the development, offers some background: Samsung's Open-Source Group had been structured within Samsung Research America. Samsung OSG was formed back in 2012 and has employed dozens of developers over the past number of years. Samsung OSG was akin to Intel OTC (Open-Source Technology Center) albeit with not nearly as many developers nor as many original open-source projects brought up by the Intel software crew. The Samsung OSG stated purpose has been to "enhance key open source projects through upstream contributions and active involvement with open source foundations." Samsung OSG has contributed very heavily to the development of Wayland as well as some X.Org components, Cairo, Enlightenment EFL, the LLVM Clang compiler, GStreamer, FFmpeg, the Linux kernel, and other related code-bases that helped benefit Samsung's open-source/Linux needs across their wide portfolio of products from smart watches to refrigerators.

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SGI

[jd]

When SGI got involved in open source, they contributed:

1. OpenGL Performer(High-Performance 3D Rendering Toolkit)
2. SGI Pro64TM Development Tools
3. Linux Digital Media Projects
4. dmSDK (Digital Media Software Development Kit)
5. Audio File Library
6. Linux Scalability patches
7. CpuMemSets (Processor and Memory Placement)
8. Kernprof (Kernel Profiling)
9. SGI kGDB (Remote host Linux kernel debugger via GDB)
10. NUMA (NUMA support in Linux)
11. Bigmem (Big Memory support for Linux)
12. Lockmeter (Linux kernel lock-metering)
13. Post/Wait (Post/Wait Synchronization)
14. SGI kdb (Linux kernel debugger)
15. Raw I/O (Enhancements to Linux raw I/O capabilities)
16. POSIX Asynchronous I/O (KAIO)
17. LKCD (Linux Kernel Crash Dumps)
18. STP (Scheduled Transfer Protocol)
19. CSA (Comprehensive System Accounting)
20. PAGG (Process Aggregates)
21. GLX (OpenGL extensions to X)
22. OpenGL® Sample Implementation (Standard Cross-platform 3D and 2D Graphics API)
23. Open InventorTM(object-oriented toolkit for interactive 3D graphics)
24. Linux/MIPS (Indy etc.)
25. Linuxï½ FailSafe (SGI FailSafe for Linux)
26. NFSv3 (NFS Version 3 work for Linux)
27. XFS (high perf journalling file system)
28. fam & imon (File Alteration Monitor and Inode Monitor)
29. OpenVault (mass storage management and framework)
30. CSA (Comprehensive System Accounting)
31. PAGG (Process Aggregates)
32. Linux ACE (Advanced Cluster Environment)
33. Accelerating Apache Project
34. Jessie (Cross-platform IDE)
35. STL (C++ standard template library)
36. Open SpeedShop for Linux (Performance Analysis Tool)
37. PCP (System Performance Monitoring and Management Framework)
38. LTP (Linux Test Project)
39. State Threads Library
40. Rhino(Infrastructure for System Administration Applications)
41. i18n(Linux Internationalization)

And other open source work included:
Samba for IRIX (Windows® / Unix® Interoperability)
ob1 (Sample Implementation of a Trusted Operating System)

Now, let's look at these projects. There's a lot there. Some wholly internal, some collaborative. Some succeeded, some failed dismally.

I can see no obvious relationship between who controlled it and success, scale of project and success, or any other parameters and success. It seems to have been fairly random.

If anyone wants to go through and note which ones were abandoned, which ones absorbed and which ones succeeded, that would be great. Pointless, as I'm probably the only one interested, but great.