The Linux Foundation has three different levels of members: silver, gold and platinum. The responsibilities of members at all levels are different. Platinum members also have seats on the board of directors, and they have to pay a membership fee of $500,000 every year.

2010165438+102, China Mobile officially joined the Linux Foundation and became a gold member. This is the first member enterprise of Linux Foundation in China.

On July 20 1 1, Toyota, the first automobile company, joined the Linux foundation, which indicates that in the near future, more cars are likely to run Linux systems in the background.

20 12 On June 6th, the Linux Foundation will announce today that Samsung will be officially accepted as the highest platinum member of the Foundation, and Samsung will get a seat on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation. As the largest mobile phone manufacturer using Google's Linux-based Android operating system, almost all products in Samsung's product line benefit from Linux, so it seems natural for Samsung to become a platinum member.

As of June 20 12, the Linux Foundation has more than 100 member companies and 10 gold members, among which Samsung has become the seventh platinum member of the Linux Foundation, and other platinum members include IBM, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Intel, Fujitsu, Qualcomm Innovation Center and NEC.

2012165438+15 October, HP joined the Linux Foundation and became a platinum member.

20 13 Sijie donates open source software Xen Hyperviso to Linux Foundation.

2015 August 14 Ali announced his participation in the Linux foundation. While joining the Linux Foundation, Ali also became a member of the advisory committee of the open source project Xen.