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Samsung plans to make Bada open source
KOREAN HARDWARE GIANT Samsung is planning to make its Bada operating system (OS) open source next year.
As part of a drive to increase the reach of its own brand OS, the firm has let slip its plan to release Bada to developers and device makers. The change will occur sometime next year, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ reported, "Samsung "is planning to make Bada software an open source platform next year," a person familiar with the situation said, adding the South Korean company has no plans to buy a software company."
The source is unnamed and this is the only information we have. We are waiting to hear back from Samsung with its comment on the issue.
So far Bada has only made an appearance on Samsung's Wave line of phones, of which it recently announced three new handsets. The move would see the OS move to rival Google's Android, which is found on a number of different mobile makers' devices.
It will mean that the firm will have less dependence on Android and could result in Samsung eventually ditching Android in favour of its own software, even thought this seems an unlikely and risky move.
Samsung recently confirmed that its older Wave handsets will get an upgrade to version 2.0 of Bada later this year. µ
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So which is the failure, again?
Samsung has a couple of times tried to put resources into Bada and come up with nothing. They throw money at it and nothing. Putting it in Open Source won't solve that. And, any attempt by them to switch will essentially undo much of what has increased their revenue over the past couple of years. Bada is a bad move.