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There have been endless discussions regarding the term, 'Open Source', which has implications of being ‘free’ and ‘open’. In order to understand its concept, the GNU.org ‘s definition points out “the free software”, and it recommends us to “think of free as in free speech, not free beer”. While it is close to the essence, it also has undergone a long process towards clarity and is still evolving.

Samsung’s Open Source journey began with a Linux Kernel contribution and has piled on many contributions consistently. According to the annual Kernel reports, Samsung has always been listed as one of the top 10 since the late 2010s. Based on fruitful knowledge there, Samsung has led the Open Source development of Tizen, which now becomes Samsung's representative S/W platform for its various consumer electronics devices with over 330 Million users on the market. Samsung has never stopped taking on new challenges of S/W technologies, by gearing up its competence through the Open Source innovation in AI, IoT, next generation communication and network, security, cloud, data intelligence, web, media, and robotics technologies.

In this journey, Samsung respects a power of people in the Open Source communities and has encouraged many Open Source S/W developers all around the world through various developer conferences and evangelism outreaches, such as Samsung Open Source Conference (SOSCON) and Samsung S/W Developer Conference (SSDC) since 2014. Samsung has also certified the standard of Open Source compliance, ISO/IEC5230:2020 (a.k.a. OpenChain), for its proper management process and system on down and upstream Open Source S/W development. By doing all these various efforts, Samsung creates new value and experiences for customers with respective partners, communities, and individual developers.

A code’s log history does not disappear, and everyone is connected through each line of code contributed. We are on COLLABORATION with all the world to achieve an OPENNESS that has never been achieved before, and it will continue along this path on the way to future INNOVATION of Samsung.