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Samsung is really making good use of the hacker community. They hired Cyanogenmod lead dev last year to collab on Android, too.
by leeoniya 14y ago
Samsung is really making good use of the hacker community. They hired Cyanogenmod lead dev last year to collab on Android, too.
- smacktoward 14y agoIt was back in 2011. And he's already moved on: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/25/4144226/steve-cyanogen-kondik-departs-samsung http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/25/4144226/steve-cyanogen-kon...
- leeoniya 14y agowow, funny coincidence that news just broke a few days ago. good to know.
- g8oz 14y agoAlso Rasterman from the Enlightenment project
- fafner 14y agoNot only Rasterman. They seem to have hired a lot of Enlightenment developers.
- Avshalom 14y agoIt's worht pointing out that in addition to any actual software Samsung might get from this, compared to a global advertising campaign this is a bargain in the form of dev goodwill->dev mindshare->general mindshare. I'm frequently reminded of the spokesperson for the old US Army game pointing out that the 40 million dev cost was ~ one 30 second spot during the superbowl.