If a report from a Chinese media publication is to be believed, Samsung was apparently interested in acquiring the Cyanogen Mod OS. The report/interview claims that these intentions eventually led to Steve Kondik, the CyanogenMod founder, to quit his day job as a software engineer at Samsung. It's from a popular Chinese tabloid so it's better we take this with a pinch of salt, but the news is not surprising at all. Samsung is the biggest player in Android and if recent developments like an exclusive dev event and the seemingly parallel services layer in the latest updates of Touchwiz are to be believed, their aspirations to have a separate OS, which is something like an Android fork, is not unfathomable. The Korean market leader had hired Steve Kondik in early 2011 for the role of a software engineer but there were vague details on what the contributions from him were going to be. To be fair, companies don't actually reveal what they do with their employees, but if we remember right, Steve was about to "make Android even more awesome" at Samsung. Two years later, he quit his job and eventually went on to introduce Cyanogen Mod OS to the ...Source: http://www.fonearena.com/blog/87008/samsung-was-interested-in-acquiring-cyanogen-mod-os-says-report.html
