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How Google drove Samsung away (itworld.com)
4 points by abennett on Sept 29, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Strange how a paragraph from Florian Mueller's blog seems to be getting repeated round the internet as an official Samsung statement.

Exhibit A:

" “If Samsung truly believed that Google’s takeover of Motorola Mobility was going to be helpful to the entire Android eco-system at large, it would have waited until that deal was closed before concluding the license agreement with Microsoft,” said a Samsung official.

“Samsung knows it can’t rely on Google. We’ve decided to address Android IP issues on our own.”"

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2011/09/133_95716....

Exhibit B

"If Samsung truly believed that Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility was going to be helpful to the Android ecosystem at large, it would have waited until that deal is closed before concluding the license agreement with Microsoft. But Samsung probably knows it can't rely on Google. It decided to address Android's intellectual property issues on its own."

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/09/samsung-takes-androi...




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