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I bet Samsung would not even know if open source is a thing
Samsung is the primary developer for Tizen, a Linux based OS similar to Android. Their watches, cameras, and TVs run it.
https://www.tizen.org/
Ofc I exaggerated, samsung is not a monolithic entity. I mean most, if not all, on the managerial position would not care at all. Also, does being android-like mean they are receptive to OSS?
I gotta hand it to Samsung that they outline all the open source licences they use, at least in their Galaxy smartphone products:
As required by the licenses, yes. That's the bare minimum lol.