Hewlett Packard becomes a platinum member of the Linux Foundation

The American company Hewlett Packard has made a major investment in the free software foundation, making $ 500,000 to the Linux Foundation.

Such a move by HP means that it gets Platinum member status along with companies such as Fujitsu, IBM, Intel, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm Innovation Center and Samsung and the right to vote on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation.
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HP Vice President Eileen Evans:

Linux is a strategic asset for most technology companies. With our platinum membership in the Linux Foundation, we have more ways to maximize our investment in Linux and joint development, which will promote both our own business and general innovations in the industry.

This year, Hewlett Packard lost its leadership in the field of sales of personal computers, losing the first line in the ranking of the Chinese Lenovo, and started the project Open webOS, opening the code of its webOS system. Until the acquisition of the platinum status of the Linux fund, the company owned the Gold member status.

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