It appears that Forbes' story about Samsung rolling its bada OS into The Linux Foundation's Tizen project was premature.

Both sides now appear to be backtracking.

"Samsung and other members of Tizen Association have not made a firm decision regarding the merge of bada and Tizen," Samsung said in an emailed statement.

"As Samsung's essential part of multi-platform portfolio, bada will continue to play an important role in democratising smartphone experience in all markets.

"Samsung will also support open source based development and continue to work together with other industry stakeholders."

Plug in?

It's a similar picture at Tizen with open source guru Carsten 'The Rasterman' Haitzler revealing "internally it's still all very nebulous and frankly details may change, so there isn't much to say at the moment."

In a released email, he goes on to describe the merger as more of an issue of Samsung bringing its bada API within Tizen, rather than a formal merger of equals.

"It's basically adding a toolkit to Tizen," he wrote, adding "It's still nebulous and unclear."

In other words, don't hold your breath folks.

[sources: Tizen, AllThingsD]