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Not a dumb question. Samsung hired, Steve Kondik, CM's lead developer in 2011. I'm not sure I've seen how this has affected Samsung, but I haven't really paid to much attention to their newer phones. Still, we won't ever see a CM phone by Samsung. Although I agree, that it would be preferred to any TouchWiz phone. http://www.theverge.com/2011/08/15/samsung-hires-cyanogenmod...

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Just a FYI, I had a SG3 for 3 weeks and I recently got the note 2 and I have no complaints. A lot of the tweaks they implemented are pretty f'in awesome and I find myself saying "that makes sense" quite often, so maybe hiring this guy helped.

Thanks for the answers and I'm happy to see that samsung did that. I know for a fact, that if I was a company and someone was making MY product better....for free, that I'd be offering them a job. That is the kind of employee I want in house, self motivated and creative.

Great point. That's exactly the kind of employee all companies should aim to hire - someone who is genuinely excited and passionate.

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