Samsung-what a crappy company

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14. The IP theft is nothing new.

Twenty years ago, I worked for Motorola, in their training department. (It was a slightly better job than waiting tables. Slightly.) Motorola had a world-class continuing education program, and allowed other companies to pay them to educate outside employees, for things like emergency management, ISO compliance, Six Sigma training, first aid. However, Samsung -- the whole company -- was on a permanent, comprehensive blacklist because of IP theft. That was in the early 1990s, before either company had much skin in the mobile market.

Lots of corporations have issues with each other, and Motorola was exceptionally protective of their ip, but no other company had such a comprehensive ban.