“South Korea will seek to develop a new, open-source operating system for mobile phones that will help secure local smartphone makers’ future competitiveness against their global rivals such as Apple Inc., a government official said Monday,” Yonhap reports.
“The move comes shortly after Google Inc. announced its purchase of Motorola Mobility, a hardware company that makes phones based on Google’s Android operating system,” Yonhap reports. “The deal poses challenges to South Korean companies such as Samsung Electronics Co., which makes Android-running smartphones.”
Yonhap reports, “Kim Jae-hong, a deputy minister from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, said… that Google, with its newly acquired ability to produce smartphones, could become one of the largest competitors for South Korean handset producers in the future… The government will launch a project before the end of the year to allow the country’s phone makers to jointly develop their own open-source mobile operating system, as well as a Web-based operating system.”
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The last Samsung product I coveted was the official Matrix Reloaded handset.
I wanted one… But it was never meant to be.
Hey, hey, I can’t resist I have to say this:
‘Uuuh… ehem… phone and gvmt guys can’t just step in and do OS’s !’
wuhahhahahahha.
sorry again.
Maybe the S. Korean government will take Android and put their name on it. Then they might claim some sort of governmental immunity. I don’t really know what I am talking about, but, why else would you put it in the ownership of the country? I don’t expect it will be anything but a copy of what already exists.
Yeah. Well we all thought they’d do a WinPho phone, but no, they’d rather do Bada…
Dear Google.. what the F were you thinking? Shoulda just bought the patents.
Isn’t it just like the government to think they are helping by allowing you to develop your own stuff? They will probably just charge a modest license fee to cover the administrative costs that taxes don’t cover.
Seems like if a hardware manufacturer can be sued for their device that runs software they got free (from Google), nothing would change if they got it from the government.
You guys taking this news wwwway too seriously.
A government developed OS? Good luck with that!
Lucky Goldstar OS 10
Samsung is basically using government funds all the time to support itself. I call that an unfair competition. Bunch of cheaters they are. Boycott all SamDung products.