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A minor issue
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 08:44 PM EDT
Minor, but your 'hacker for hire' signature at the end is probably a bad idea
without a explanation, while many in the technical community recognize what you
mean by 'hacker', to the average person this has very bad connotations and is
likely to remove some weight from your letter.

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A voice against 'Fairsearch'
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 08:41 AM EDT

Mentioning how Microsoft has used it's OS dominance to harm and destroy competition for rival products would help.

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A voice against 'Fairsearch'
Authored by: tknarr on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 02:25 PM EDT

I think you might want to include the deception Fairsearch is trying to pull off. Android itself is free for anyone to use, modify and redistribute. The Google Play Store, Google Maps and so on, are not. They aren't part of Android, they're proprietary apps belonging to Google that run on top of Android. To get the right to redistribute them, you need to have a contract with Google allowing you to and you have to agree to Google's terms to get them to agree to that contract. Ditto for using Google's trademarks like their name on your product. That's hardly a novel situation. But Fairsearch wants to confuse the issue by conflating including those proprietary apps and using Google's trademarks with using Android itself. But saying "Google won't let us include Google Maps unless we make it the primary map provider app on our handset.", or "Google won't let us use their trademarked logo on our device unless we make their services the primary ones.", would get them laughed out of the office. So they make their claims about Android, hoping you'll miss them substituting the phone OS for the applications that run on that OS.

Just saying "They're wrong." may be a strong argument to us who know what's going on, but "They're pulling a fast one, and here's where they palmed that card on you." will make more of an impression on the bureaucrats involved.

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