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Guess what... That's the closed bada SDK from abandoned Bada 2 featurephone series. They kicked the nice EFL libraries. Dropped all the meego, moblin. Linux Foundation got $500k in cash from Samsung for this to succeed silently. Hopefully some of that funding will go to Linux developers.

You are right!

I remember having a look at Bada and giving up because of Symbian's similarity.

As for the rest, it is pretty common inside big companies where the business units tend to play a lot of politics. I went through that process a few times already.

I hope that this slashdot submission gets voted down. It is full of inaccuracies and cheap shots against Tizen.

Is it? If Tizen is locked down and does not come with an open bootloader and native support a la Android and is closed for anybody but OEM's then it has a hard time among certain developer-groups like those at Linux. For a Linux Foundation project thats big news isn't it?

What are the inaccuraties and cheap shots in your opinion?

Edited 2013-02-21 08:21 UTC

Additionally what does this say about Intel? This is only their third linux distro that sucks.

I just don't think Intel cares about getting linux based products to market. Maybe they have always been trying to stall until their chips can compete with arm? I don't know, but I think I'll avoid any of their current or future smart phone offerings.

Intel needs to stick to providing hardware direction and making reference devices for other platforms.

I'm not entirely sure the value Intel even sees here, I'm sure they love Linux, it shows by the work they put back into it but they frankly shouldn't be wasting time with these science projects.

Picking Samsung as a partner for this shows they have very little in the way of common sense. They're pretty much the worst partner. There's a GSIII bug that if you copy and paste too much, you will screw your device until you factory reset it.

WHAT kind of engineering is that?

Intel's last attempt to enter the handset market failed miserably when Nokia dumped MeeGo for Microsoft. Now they are in bed with Samsung, and their engineers have to endure a lot of abuse for it:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIwMDU

But Intel are desperate to get into the mobile business and so they keep on coming back. How desperate is illustrated by the fact that Qualcomm passed Intel in market cap last year.

Holy crap! Has there been any explanation for that? What possible explanation is there?

I have seen this happen in many Fortune 500 companies that look at open source as a way to get free stuff, nothing else.

Yeah, but from that article it looks like one fortune 500 company completely screwed over another ( in addition other developers). I think this is even more evidence that the higher ups at intel just look at their linux mobile effort as a distraction, rather than an actual shipping product that they care about. If I were an intel dev working on the project, I'd quit the company and find a job where my work is appreciated. Or at the very least lobby to contribute to a different internal effort.

I have been in a similar situation a few times already.

I am yet to do a project for a Fortune 500 company that fully respects how FOSS is supposed to work.

Explanation for what? Samsung's behavior? That is pretty typical for a company which does not have a developed open source culture. You see this sometimes when companies try to get their hardware supported in Linux: they dump a huge load of driver code onto the kernel maintainers which more often than not is so messy that it is rewritten entirely before being accepted.

Or explanation for Intel's desperation? Mobile is the future, and their execs have recognized this. The PC business is contracting and will never again reach today's levels. Intel's position in mobile is laughable, and they badly need to become relevant there - or else become irrelevant altogether.