14 DAY TRIAL // The Linux Foundation has announced that a number of companies from the semiconductor and storage industry have just joined the organization, which is already the home of more than 200 other partners.
The Linux Foundation has been tasked with the promotion and protection of Linux and it's a non-profit organization. It's responsible for the biggest collaborative project in the world, the Linux kernel, and it has also managed to gather a large number of companies around it in an effort to promote open source and free collaboration.
"The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced that Adapteva, GitHub, SanDisk, Seagate and Western Digital are joining the organization. These companies join the more than 200 existing members in supporting Linux and fostering collaboration on a truly massive scale."
"A new approach to developing software that embraces open source, online code sharing, and lower barriers to entry is taking off within enterprises. Within the storage industry, for example, a growing dependency on digital data is driving new innovations in areas such as flash technology, cloud services and cloud-based storage, and Linux is paving the way. Through massive collaboration, companies across all industries are building better software and competitive differentiation, proven by the millions of open source projects hosted by GitHub alone," reads the announcement.
You might have noticed some big names in the list like Adapteva, a semiconductor manufacturer that develops multicore processor chips for high-performance computing applications, SanDisk Corporation, which is a company specialized in storage solutions based on flash-memory devices, Seagate, which is a company best known for disk drives, solid-state drives, and solid-state hybrid drives, and Western Digital, which is also a company that builds hard drives and solid state drives.
The Linux Foundation was founded back in 2000, and since then numerous companies have become partners, like Google, Cisco, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Samsung, SUSE, Toyota, AMD, NVIDIA, Valve, Sony, and many more.
You might have noticed one of their latest endeavors. The Linux Foundation managed to convince its members to actively contribute to the development of OpenSSL, which has been lacking. After numerous vulnerabilities were found in OpenSSL, The Linux Foundation was the only one who thought of doing something about it and now OpenSSL is one of the best-funded security-related packages in the open source world.
More details about the new partners of The Linux Foundation can be found in the official announcement.